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 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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 "book": "Songs of Travel and Other Verses",
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  "year": 1896,
  "venue": "Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)",
  "note": "Taken from the 1896 Chatto & Windus volume, the first separate edition. That is not the poems' first appearance: Sidney Colvin's prefatory note to this volume states that they had already been included in the Edinburgh Edition of Stevenson's works. Which printing came first, and in what year, has not been established here.",
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   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems,_by_Robert_Louis_Stevenson,_hitherto_unpublished"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "The embers of the day are red",
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   {
    "text": "Beyond the murky hill.",
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   {
    "text": "The kitchen smokes: the bed",
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    "text": "In the darkling house is spread:",
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   {
    "text": "The great sky darkens overhead,",
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   {
    "text": "And the great woods are shrill.",
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   {
    "text": "So far have I been led,",
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   {
    "text": "Lord, by Thy will:",
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    "text": "So far I have followed, Lord, and wondered still.",
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    "text": "The breeze from the embalmèd land",
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   {
    "text": "Blows sudden toward the shore,",
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   {
    "text": "And claps my cottage door.",
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   {
    "text": "I hear the signal, Lord⁠—I understand.",
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   {
    "text": "The night at Thy command",
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    "text": "Comes. I will eat and sleep and will not question more.",
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