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 "title": "To S. R. Crockett",
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 "subtitle": "(On Receiving a Dedication)",
 "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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   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems,_by_Robert_Louis_Stevenson,_hitherto_unpublished"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Blows the wind today, and the sun and the rain are flying,",
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    "text": "Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,",
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    "text": "My heart remembers how!",
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    "text": "Grey recumbent tombs of the dead in desert places,",
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    "text": "Standing-stones on the vacant wine-red moor,",
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    "text": "Hills of sheep, and the homes of the silent vanished races,",
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    "text": "And winds, austere and pure:",
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    "text": "Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,",
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    "text": "Hills of home! and to hear again the call;",
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    "text": "Hear about the graves of the martyrs the peewees crying,",
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