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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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    "text": "I know not how it is with you⁠—",
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    "text": "I love the first and last,",
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    "text": "The whole field of the present view,",
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    "text": "The whole flow of the past.",
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   {
    "text": "One tittle of the things that are,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor you should change nor I⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "One pebble in our path⁠—one star",
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   {
    "text": "In all our heaven of sky.",
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   {
    "text": "Our lives, and every day and hour,",
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   {
    "text": "One symphony appear:",
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   {
    "text": "One road, one garden⁠—every flower",
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    "text": "And every bramble dear.",
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