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 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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  "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": "The infinite shining heavens",
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    "text": "Rose and I saw in the night",
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    "text": "Night after night in my sorrow",
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    "text": "The stars stood over the sea,",
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