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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": "She rested by the Broken Brook,",
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    "text": "She drank of Weary Well,",
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    "text": "Ah, whither none can tell!",
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    "text": "She came, she went. In other lands,",
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    "text": "Perchance in fairer skies,",
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    "text": "Her eyes to other eyes.",
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    "text": "She vanished. In the sounding town,",
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    "text": "Will she remember too?",
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    "text": "Will she recall the eyes of brown",
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