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 "title": "North-West Passage",
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 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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   "ordinal": "I",
   "title": "Good Night",
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    "text": "When the bright lamp is carried in,",
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    "text": "The sunless hours again begin;",
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    "text": "O’er all without, in field and lane,",
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    "text": "The haunted night returns again.",
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    "text": "Now we behold the embers flee",
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    "text": "About the firelit hearth; and see",
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    "text": "Our faces painted as we pass,",
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    "text": "Like pictures, on the window-glass.",
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    "text": "Must we to bed indeed? Well then,",
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    "text": "Let us arise and go like men,",
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    "text": "And face with an undaunted tread",
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    "text": "Farewell, O brother, sister, sire!",
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    "text": "O pleasant party round the fire!",
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    "text": "The songs you sing, the tales you tell,",
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    "text": "Till far tomorrow, fare ye well!",
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    "text": "All round the house is the jet-black night;",
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    "text": "It stares through the window-pane;",
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    "text": "It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light,",
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    "text": "And it moves with the moving flame.",
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    "text": "Now my little heart goes a-beating like a drum,",
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    "text": "With the breath of the Bogie in my hair;",
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    "text": "And all round the candle the crooked shadows come",
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    "text": "And go marching along up the stair.",
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    "text": "The shadow of the balusters, the shadow of the lamp,",
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    "text": "The shadow of the child that goes to bed⁠—",
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    "text": "All the wicked shadows coming, tramp, tramp, tramp,",
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    "text": "With the black night overhead.",
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    "text": "Last, to the chamber where I lie",
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    "text": "My fearful footsteps patter nigh,",
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    "text": "And come from out the cold and gloom",
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    "text": "Into my warm and cheerful room.",
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    "text": "There, safe arrived, we turned about",
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    "text": "To keep the coming shadows out,",
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    "text": "And close the happy door at last",
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    "text": "On all the perils that we passed.",
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    "text": "Then, when mamma goes by to bed,",
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    "text": "She shall come in with tip-toe tread,",
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   {
    "text": "And see me lying warm and fast",
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   {
    "text": "And in the land of Nod at last.",
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