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 "title": "Winter",
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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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "In rigorous hours, when down the iron lane",
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   {
    "text": "The redbreast looks in vain",
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   {
    "text": "For hips and haws,",
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    "text": "Lo, shining flowers upon my window-pane",
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   {
    "text": "The silver pencil of the winter draws.",
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    "text": "When all the snowy hill",
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   {
    "text": "And the bare woods are still;",
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    "text": "When snipes are silent in the frozen bogs,",
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   {
    "text": "And all the garden garth is whelmed in mire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lo, by the hearth, the laughter of the logs⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "More fair than roses, lo, the flowers of fire!",
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