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 "title": "To Princess Kaiulani",
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 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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 "book": "Songs of Travel and Other Verses",
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  "year": 1896,
  "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": "Forth from her land to mine she goes,",
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   {
    "text": "The island maid, the island rose,",
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    "text": "Light of heart and bright of face:",
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    "text": "The daughter of a double race.",
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    "text": "Her islands here, in Southern sun,",
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    "text": "Shall mourn their Kaiulani gone,",
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   {
    "text": "And I, in her dear banyan shade,",
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    "text": "Look vainly for my little maid.",
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    "text": "But our Scots islands far away",
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    "text": "Shall glitter with unwonted day,",
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    "text": "And cast for once their tempests by",
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    "text": "To smile in Kaiulani’s eye.",
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