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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 dreamed of forest alleys fair",
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   {
    "text": "And fields of gray-flowered grass,",
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    "text": "Where by the yellow summer moon",
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    "text": "My Jenny seemed to pass.",
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    "text": "I dreamed the yellow summer moon,",
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    "text": "Behind a cedar wood,",
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    "text": "Lay white on fields of rippling grass",
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    "text": "Where I and Jenny stood.",
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    "text": "I dreamed⁠—but fallen through my dream,",
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    "text": "In a rainy land I lie",
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    "text": "Where wan wet morning crowns the hills",
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    "text": "Of grim reality.",
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    "text": "I am as one that keeps awake",
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    "text": "All night in the month of June,",
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    "text": "That lies awake in bed to watch",
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    "text": "The trees and great white moon.",
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    "text": "For memories of love are more",
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    "text": "Than the white moon there above,",
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    "text": "And dearer than quiet moonshine",
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    "text": "Are the thoughts of her I love.",
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    "text": "Last night I lingered long without",
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    "text": "My last of loves to see.",
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    "text": "Alas! the moon-white window-panes",
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    "text": "Stared blindly back on me.",
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   {
    "text": "Today I hold her very hand,",
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    "text": "Her very waist embrace⁠—",
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    "text": "Like clouds across a pool, I read",
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    "text": "Her thoughts upon her face.",
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    "text": "And yet, as now, through her clear eyes",
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    "text": "I seek the inner shrine⁠—",
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    "text": "I stoop to read her virgin heart",
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    "text": "In doubt if it be mine⁠—",
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    "text": "O looking long and fondly thus,",
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    "text": "What vision should I see?",
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    "text": "No vision, but my own white face",
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    "text": "That grins and mimics me.",
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    "text": "Once more upon the same old seat",
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    "text": "In the same sunshiny weather,",
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    "text": "The elm-trees’ shadows at their feet",
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    "text": "And foliage move together.",
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    "text": "The shadows shift upon the grass,",
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    "text": "The dial point creeps on;",
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    "text": "The clear sun shines, the loiterers pass,",
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    "text": "As then they passed and shone.",
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    "text": "But now deep sleep is on my heart,",
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    "text": "Deep sleep and perfect rest.",
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   {
    "text": "Hope’s flutterings now disturb no more",
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   {
    "text": "The quiet of my breast.",
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