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 "title": "A Lytle Jape of Tusherie",
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 "subtitle": "By A. Tusher",
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  "year": 1911,
  "venue": "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Volume Fourteen (1911)",
  "note": "Taken from the 'Additional Poems' at the end of volume XIV of the Swanston Edition, a collected edition. That is the printing this text comes from, not the poem's first appearance, and which earlier book or magazine printed it first has not been established here. The year itself is disputed: the Archive.org catalogue record cited for this volume gives 1911, while the volume's own title page reads MDCCCCXII, that is 1912.",
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    "text": "The pleasant river gushes",
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    "text": "Among the meadows green;",
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    "text": "At home the author tushes;",
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    "text": "For him it flows unseen.",
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    "text": "The Birds among the Bushes",
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    "text": "May wanton on the spray;",
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    "text": "But vain for him who tushes",
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    "text": "The brightness of the day!",
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    "text": "The frog among the rushes",
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    "text": "Sits singing in the blue.",
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    "text": "By ’r la’kin! but these tushes",
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    "text": "Are wearisome to do!",
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    "text": "The task entirely crushes",
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    "text": "The spirit of the bard:",
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    "text": "God pity him who tushes⁠—",
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    "text": "His task is very hard.",
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    "text": "The filthy gutter slushes,",
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    "text": "The clouds are full of rain,",
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    "text": "But doomed is he who tushes",
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    "text": "To tush and tush again.",
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    "text": "At morn with his hair-brushes,",
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    "text": "Still “tush” he says and weeps;",
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   {
    "text": "At night again he tushes,",
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    "text": "And when at length he pushes",
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    "text": "Beyond the river dark⁠—",
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    "text": "’Las, to the man who tushes,",
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    "text": "“Tush” shall be God’s remark!",
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