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 "id": "robert-w-service/comfort",
 "title": "Comfort",
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 "poet": "Robert W. Service",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Songs of a Sourdough",
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  "year": 1907,
  "venue": "Songs of a Sourdough (1907)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "Say! You’ve struck a heap of trouble⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bust in business, lost your wife;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No one cares a cent about you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You don’t care a cent for life;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hard luck has of hope bereft you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Health is failing, wish you’d die⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why, you’ve still the sunshine left you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the big, blue sky.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Sky so blue it makes you wonder",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If it’s heaven shining through;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Earth so smiling ’way out yonder,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sun so bright it dazzles you;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Birds a-singing, flowers a-flinging",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All their fragrance on the breeze;",
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   {
    "text": "Dancing shadows, green, still meadows⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Don’t you mope, you’ve still got these.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "These, and none can take them from you;",
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   {
    "text": "These, and none can weigh their worth.",
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   {
    "text": "What! you’re tired and broke and beaten?⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why, you’re rich⁠—you’ve got the earth!",
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   {
    "text": "Yes, if you’re a tramp in tatters,",
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   {
    "text": "While the blue sky bends above,",
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   {
    "text": "You’ve got nearly all that matters,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You’ve got God, and God is love.",
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