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 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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  "year": 1896,
  "venue": "Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)",
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    "text": "In the highlands, in the country places,",
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   {
    "text": "Where the old plain men have rosy faces,",
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    "text": "And the young fair maidens",
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    "text": "Quiet eyes;",
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    "text": "Where essential silence cheers and blesses,",
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   {
    "text": "And forever in the hill-recesses",
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    "text": "Her more lovely music",
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    "text": "Broods and dies.",
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    "text": "O to mount again where erst I haunted;",
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    "text": "Where the old red hills are bird-enchanted,",
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    "text": "And the low green meadows",
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    "text": "Bright with sward;",
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    "text": "And when even dies, the million-tinted,",
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   {
    "text": "And the night has come, and planets glinted,",
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   {
    "text": "Lo, the valley hollow",
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    "text": "Lamp-bestarred!",
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   {
    "text": "O to dream, O to awake and wander",
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    "text": "There, and with delight to take and render,",
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   {
    "text": "Through the trance of silence,",
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   {
    "text": "Quiet breath;",
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   {
    "text": "Lo! for there, among the flowers and grasses,",
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   {
    "text": "Only the mightier movement sounds and passes;",
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   {
    "text": "Only winds and rivers,",
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   {
    "text": "Life and death.",
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