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 "title": "To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health",
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 "poet": "Phillis Wheatley",
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 "book": "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral",
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  "year": 1773,
  "venue": "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)",
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   {
    "text": "Indulgent muse! my grov’ling mind inspire,",
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   {
    "text": "And fill my bosom with celestial fire.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "See from Jamaica’s fervid shore she moves,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like the fair mother of the blooming loves,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When from above the Goddess with her hand",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fans the soft breeze, and lights upon the land;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thus she on Neptune’s wat’ry realm reclin’d",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Appear’d, and thus invites the ling’ring wind.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Arise, ye winds, America explore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Waft me, ye gales, from this malignant shore;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“The Northern milder climes I long to greet,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“There hope that health will my arrival meet.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Soon as she spoke in my ideal view",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The winds assented, and the vessel flew.",
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   {
    "text": "Madam, your spouse bereft of wife and son,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the grove’s dark recesses pours his moan;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each branch, wide-spreading to the ambient sky,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Forgets its verdure, and submits to die.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "From thence I turn, and leave the sultry plain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And swift pursue thy passage o’er the main:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The ship arrives before the fav’ring wind,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And makes the Philadelphian port assign’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thence I attend you to Bostonia’s arms,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where gen’rous friendship ev’ry bosom warms:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thrice welcome here! may health revive again,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bloom on thy cheek, and bound in ev’ry vein!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then back return to gladden ev’ry heart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And give your spouse his soul’s far dearer part,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Receiv’d again with what a sweet surprise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The tear in transport starting from his eyes!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While his attendant son with blooming grace",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Springs to his father’s ever dear embrace.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With shouts of joy Jamaica’s rocks resound,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With shouts of joy the country rings around.",
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