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 "title": "Burlesque Sonnet",
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 "subtitle": "To Aeneas William Mackintosh",
 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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 "book": "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Volume Fourteen",
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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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Thee, Mackintosh, artificer of light,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thee, the lone smoker hails! the student, thee;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thee, oft upon the ungovernable sea,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The seaman, conscious of approaching night;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou, with industrious fingers, hast outright",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mastered that art, of other arts the key,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That bids thick night before the morning flee,",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And lingering day retains for mortal sight.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O Promethean workman, thee I hail,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thee hallowed, thee unparalleled, thee bold",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To affront the reign of sleep and darkness old,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Thee William, thee Aeneas, thee I sing;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thee by the glimmering taper clear and pale,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of light, and light’s purveyance, hail, the king.",
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