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 "title": "The Kitchen Chimney",
 "poet": "Robert Frost",
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    "text": "Builder, in building the little house,",
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    "text": "In every way you may please yourself;",
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    "text": "But please please me in the kitchen chimney:",
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    "text": "Don’t build me a chimney upon a shelf.",
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    "text": "However far you must go for bricks,",
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    "text": "Whatever they cost a-piece or a pound,",
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    "text": "Buy me enough for a full-length chimney,",
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    "text": "And build the chimney clear from the ground.",
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    "text": "It’s not that I’m greatly afraid of fire,",
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    "text": "But I never heard of a house that throve",
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    "text": "(And I know of one that didn’t thrive)",
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    "text": "Where the chimney started above the stove.",
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    "text": "And I dread the ominous stain of tar",
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    "text": "That there always is on the papered walls,",
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    "text": "That there always is when the chimney’s false.",
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    "text": "A shelf’s for a clock or vase or picture,",
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    "text": "A chimney that only would serve to remind me",
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