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 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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    "text": "For the long nights you lay awake",
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   {
    "text": "And watched for my unworthy sake:",
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    "text": "For your most comfortable hand",
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    "text": "That led me through the uneven land:",
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    "text": "For all the story-books you read:",
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    "text": "For all the pains you comforted:",
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    "text": "For all you pitied, all you bore,",
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    "text": "In sad and happy days of yore:⁠—",
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    "text": "My second Mother, my first Wife,",
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    "text": "The angel of my infant life⁠—",
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    "text": "From the sick child, now well and old,",
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    "text": "Take, nurse, the little book you hold!",
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    "text": "And grant it, Heaven, that all who read",
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    "text": "May find as dear a nurse at need,",
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    "text": "And every child who lists my rhyme,",
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    "text": "In the bright, fireside, nursery clime,",
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    "text": "May hear it in as kind a voice",
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    "text": "As made my childish days rejoice!",
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