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 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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 "book": "New Poems and Variant Readings",
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  "venue": "New Poems and Variant Readings (1918)",
  "note": "Taken from the 1918 Chatto & Windus volume. That is not the first printing: this volume's own preface credits the Bibliophile Society of Boston with having first given these poems light in a privately printed edition. The year of that edition, and which poems it carried, are not established here.",
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    "text": "Call it to mind, O my love.",
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   {
    "text": "Dear were your eyes as the day,",
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   {
    "text": "Bright as the day and the sky;",
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   {
    "text": "Like the stream of gold and the sky above,",
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   {
    "text": "Dear were your eyes in the grey.",
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   {
    "text": "We have lived, my love, O, we have lived, my love!",
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   {
    "text": "Now along the silent river, azure",
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    "text": "Through the sky’s inverted image,",
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    "text": "Softly swam the boat that bore our love,",
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    "text": "Swiftly ran the shallow of our love",
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    "text": "Through the heaven’s inverted image,",
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    "text": "In the reedy mazes round the river.",
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    "text": "See along the silent river,",
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    "text": "See of old the lover’s shallop steer.",
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    "text": "Berried brake and reedy island,",
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    "text": "Heaven below and only heaven above.",
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    "text": "Through the sky’s inverted image",
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    "text": "Swiftly swam the boat that bore our love.",
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    "text": "Berried brake and reedy island,",
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    "text": "Mirrored flower and shallop gliding by.",
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    "text": "All the earth and all the sky were ours,",
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   {
    "text": "Silent sat the wafted lovers,",
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   {
    "text": "Bound with grain and watched by all the sky,",
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    "text": "Hand to hand and eye to⁠ ⁠… eye.",
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    "text": "Days of April, airs of Eden,",
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    "text": "Call to mind how bright the vanished angel hours,",
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    "text": "Golden hours of evening,",
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   {
    "text": "When our boat drew homeward filled with flowers.",
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   {
    "text": "O darling, call them to mind; love the past, my love.",
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   {
    "text": "Days of April, airs of Eden.",
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   {
    "text": "How the glory died through golden hours,",
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   {
    "text": "And the shining moon arising;",
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    "text": "How the boat drew homeward filled with flowers.",
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   {
    "text": "Age and winter close us slowly in.",
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    "text": "Level river, cloudless heaven,",
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    "text": "Islanded reed mazes, silver weirs;",
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    "text": "How the silent boat with silver",
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    "text": "Threads the inverted forest as she goes,",
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    "text": "Broke the trembling green of mirrored trees.",
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   {
    "text": "O, remember, and remember",
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    "text": "How the berries hung in garlands.",
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    "text": "Still in the river see the shallop floats.",
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    "text": "Hark! Chimes the falling oar.",
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    "text": "Still in the mind",
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    "text": "Hark to the song of the past!",
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    "text": "Dream, and they pass in their dreams.",
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   {
    "text": "Those that loved of yore, O those that loved of yore!",
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    "text": "Hark through the stillness, O darling, hark!",
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    "text": "Through it all the ear of the mind",
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    "text": "Knows the boat of love. Hark!",
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    "text": "Chimes the falling oar.",
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    "text": "O half in vain they grew old.",
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    "text": "Now the halcyon days are over,",
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   {
    "text": "Age and winter close us slowly round,",
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   {
    "text": "And these sounds at fall of even",
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    "text": "Dim the sight and muffle all the sound.",
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    "text": "And at the married fireside, sleep of soul and sleep of fancy,",
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   {
    "text": "Joan and Darby.",
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    "text": "Silence of the world without a sound;",
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    "text": "And beside the winter faggot",
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    "text": "Joan and Darby sit and doze and dream and wake⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Dream they hear the flowing, singing river,",
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   {
    "text": "See the berries in the island brake;",
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    "text": "Dream they hear the weir,",
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   {
    "text": "See the gliding shallop mar the stream.",
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    "text": "Hark! in your dreams do you hear?",
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    "text": "Snow has filled the drifted forest;",
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   {
    "text": "Ice has bound the⁠ ⁠… stream.",
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   {
    "text": "Frost has bound our flowing river;",
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    "text": "Snow has whitened all our island brake.",
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    "text": "Berried brake and reedy island,",
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    "text": "Heaven below and only heaven above azure",
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    "text": "Through the sky’s inverted image",
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    "text": "Safely swam the boat that bore our love.",
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    "text": "Dear were your eyes as the day,",
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    "text": "Bright ran the stream, bright hung the sky above.",
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    "text": "Days of April, airs of Eden.",
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    "text": "How the glory died through golden hours,",
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    "text": "And the shining moon arising,",
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    "text": "How the boat drew homeward filled with flowers.",
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    "text": "Bright were your eyes in the night:",
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    "text": "We have lived, my love;",
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   {
    "text": "O, we have loved, my love.",
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   {
    "text": "Now the⁠ ⁠… days are over,",
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   {
    "text": "Age and winter close us slowly round.",
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    "text": "Vainly time departs, and vainly",
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    "text": "Age and winter come and close us round.",
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    "text": "Hark the river’s long continuous sound.",
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    "text": "Hear the river ripples in the reeds.",
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    "text": "Lo, in dreams they see their shallop",
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    "text": "Run the lilies down and drown the weeds",
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    "text": "Mid the sound of crackling faggots.",
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   {
    "text": "So in dreams the new created",
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    "text": "Happy past returns, today recedes,",
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    "text": "And they hear once more,",
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    "text": "From the old years,",
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    "text": "Yesterday returns, today recedes,",
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    "text": "And they hear with aged hearing warbles",
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    "text": "Love’s own river ripple in the weeds.",
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    "text": "And again the lover’s shallop;",
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   {
    "text": "Lo, the shallop sheds the streaming weeds;",
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   {
    "text": "And afar in foreign countries",
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    "text": "In the ears of aged lovers.",
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    "text": "And again in winter evens",
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    "text": "Starred with lilies⁠ ⁠… with stirring weeds.",
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    "text": "In these ears of aged lovers",
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    "text": "Love’s own river ripples in the reeds.",
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