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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 stormy evening closes now in vain,",
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   {
    "text": "Loud wails the wind and beats the driving rain,",
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   {
    "text": "While here in sheltered house",
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   {
    "text": "With fire-ypainted walls,",
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   {
    "text": "I hear the wind abroad,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I hark the calling squalls⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Blow, blow,” I cry, “you burst your cheeks in vain!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Blow, blow,” I cry, “my love is home again!”",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Yon ship you chase perchance but yesternight",
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   {
    "text": "Bore still the precious freight of my delight,",
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   {
    "text": "That here in sheltered house",
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   {
    "text": "With fire-ypainted walls,",
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    "text": "Now hears the wind abroad,",
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   {
    "text": "Now harks the calling squalls.",
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   {
    "text": "“Blow, blow,” I cry, “in vain you rouse the sea,",
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   {
    "text": "My rescued sailor shares the fire with me!”",
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