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 "title": "To My Name-Child",
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 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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  "venue": "A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)",
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   {
    "text": "Some day soon this rhyming volume, if you learn with proper speed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Little Louis Sanchez, will be given you to read.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then shall you discover that your name was printed down",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By the English printers, long before, in London town.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "In the great and busy city where the East and West are met,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All the little letters did the English printer set;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While you thought of nothing, and were still too young to play,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Foreign people thought of you in places far away.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Ay, and while you slept, a baby, over all the English lands",
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   {
    "text": "Other little children took the volume in their hands;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Other children questioned, in their homes across the seas:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who was little Louis, won’t you tell us, mother, please?",
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   {
    "text": "Now that you have spelt your lesson, lay it down and go and play,",
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   {
    "text": "Seeking shells and seaweed on the sands of Monterey,",
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   {
    "text": "Watching all the mighty whalebones, lying buried by the breeze,",
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    "text": "Tiny sandy-pipers, and the huge Pacific seas.",
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    "text": "And remember in your playing, as the sea-fog rolls to you,",
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   {
    "text": "Long ere you could read it, how I told you what to do;",
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   {
    "text": "And that while you thought of no one, nearly half the world away",
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    "text": "Some one thought of Louis on the beach of Monterey!",
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