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 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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  "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": "I do not fear to own me kin",
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   {
    "text": "To the glad clods in which spring flowers begin;",
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   {
    "text": "Or to my brothers, the great trees,",
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   {
    "text": "That speak with pleasant voices in the breeze,",
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   {
    "text": "Loud talkers with the winds that pass;",
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   {
    "text": "Or to my sister, the deep grass.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Of such I am, of such my body is,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That thrills to reach its lips to kiss.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That gives and takes with wind and sun and rain",
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   {
    "text": "And feels keen pleasure to the point of pain.",
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    "text": "Of such are these,",
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   {
    "text": "The brotherhood of stalwart trees,",
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   {
    "text": "The humble family of flowers,",
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    "text": "That make a light of shadowy bowers",
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    "text": "Or star the edges of the bent:",
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   {
    "text": "They give and take sweet colour and sweet scent;",
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   {
    "text": "They joy to shed themselves abroad;",
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    "text": "And tree and flower and grass and sod",
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    "text": "Thrill and leap and live and sing",
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   {
    "text": "With silent voices in the Spring.",
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   {
    "text": "Hence I not fear to yield my breath,",
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   {
    "text": "Since all is still unchanged by death;",
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   {
    "text": "Since in some pleasant valley I may be,",
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   {
    "text": "Clod beside clod, or tree by tree,",
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   {
    "text": "Long ages hence, with her I love this hour;",
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   {
    "text": "And feel a lively joy to share",
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    "text": "With her the sun and rain and air,",
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   {
    "text": "To taste her quiet neighbourhood",
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   {
    "text": "As the dumb things of field and wood,",
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   {
    "text": "The clod, the tree, and starry flower,",
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   {
    "text": "Alone of all things have the power.",
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