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 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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    "text": "Friend, in my mountain-side demesne,",
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    "text": "My plain-beholding, rosy, green",
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   {
    "text": "And linnet-haunted garden-ground,",
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    "text": "Let still the esculents abound.",
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    "text": "Let first the onion flourish there,",
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   {
    "text": "Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,",
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    "text": "Wine-scented and poetic soul",
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    "text": "Of the capacious salad-bowl.",
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    "text": "Let thyme the mountaineer (to dress",
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    "text": "The tinier birds) and wading cress,",
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    "text": "The lover of the shallow brook,",
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    "text": "From all my plots and borders look.",
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    "text": "Nor crisp and ruddy radish, nor",
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    "text": "Peas-cods for the child’s pinafore",
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    "text": "Be lacking; nor of salad clan",
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    "text": "The last and least that ever ran",
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    "text": "About great nature’s garden-beds.",
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    "text": "Nor thence be missed the speary heads",
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    "text": "Of artichoke; nor thence the bean",
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    "text": "That gathered innocent and green",
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    "text": "Outsavours the belauded pea.",
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    "text": "These tend, I prithee; and for me,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy most long-suffering master, bring",
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    "text": "In April, when the linnets sing",
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    "text": "And the days lengthen more and more,",
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    "text": "At sundown to the garden door.",
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    "text": "And I, being provided thus,",
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    "text": "Shall, with superb asparagus,",
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   {
    "text": "A book, a taper, and a cup",
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   {
    "text": "Of country wine, divinely sup.",
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