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 "title": "To F. J. S.",
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 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "I read, dear friend, in your dear face",
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   {
    "text": "Your life’s tale told with perfect grace;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The river of your life I trace",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Up the sun-chequered, devious bed",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To the far-distant fountain-head.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Not one quick beat of your warm heart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor thought that came to you apart,",
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   {
    "text": "Pleasure nor pity, love nor pain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor sorrow, has gone by in vain;",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "But as some lone, wood-wandering child",
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   {
    "text": "Brings home with him at evening mild",
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   {
    "text": "The thorns and flowers of all the wild,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From your whole life, O fair and true,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your flowers and thorns you bring with you!",
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