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 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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  "venue": "Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)",
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    "text": "Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,",
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    "text": "With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,",
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    "text": "The great artificer",
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    "text": "Made my mate.",
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    "text": "Honour, anger, valour, fire;",
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    "text": "A love that life could never tire,",
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    "text": "Death quench or evil stir,",
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    "text": "The mighty master",
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    "text": "Gave to her.",
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    "text": "Teacher, tender, comrade, wife,",
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    "text": "A fellow-farer true through life,",
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    "text": "Heart-whole and soul-free",
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    "text": "The august father",
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