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 "title": "Youth and Love⁠—II",
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 "poet": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
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 "book": "Songs of Travel and Other Verses",
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  "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": "To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside.",
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    "text": "Passing forever, he fares; and on either hand,",
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    "text": "Deep in the gardens golden pavilions hide,",
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    "text": "Call him with lighted lamp in the eventide.",
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    "text": "Thick as the stars at night when the moon is down,",
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    "text": "Pleasures assail him. He to his nobler fate",
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    "text": "Fares; and but waves a hand as he passes on,",
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    "text": "Cries but a wayside word to her at the garden gate,",
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