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  "venue": "Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)",
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    "text": "To you, let snow and roses",
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    "text": "And golden locks belong.",
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    "text": "These are the world’s enslavers,",
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    "text": "Let these delight the throng.",
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    "text": "For her of duskier lustre",
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   {
    "text": "Whose favour still I wear,",
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    "text": "The snow be in her kirtle,",
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    "text": "The rose be in her hair!",
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    "text": "The hue of highland rivers",
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    "text": "Careering, full and cool,",
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    "text": "From sable on to golden,",
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    "text": "From rapid on to pool⁠—",
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    "text": "The hue of heather-honey,",
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    "text": "The hue of honey-bees,",
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    "text": "Shall tinge her golden shoulder,",
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    "text": "Shall gild her tawny knees.",
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