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 "id": "robert-w-service/lenvoi",
 "title": "L’Envoi",
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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Robert W. Service",
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 "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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   {
    "text": "You who have lived in the Land,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You who have trusted the trail;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You who are strong to withstand,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You who are swift to assail;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Songs have I sung to beguile,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Vintage of desperate years",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hard as a harlot’s smile,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bitter as unshed tears.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Little of joy or mirth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Little of ease I sing;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sagas of men of earth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Humanly suffering,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Such as you all have done;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Savagely faring forth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sons of the midnight sun,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Argonauts of the North.",
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   {
    "text": "Far in the land God forgot",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Glimmers the lure of your trail;",
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   {
    "text": "Still in your lust are you taught",
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   {
    "text": "Even to win is to fail.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Still must you follow and fight",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Under the vampire wing;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There in the long, long night",
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   {
    "text": "Hoping and vanquishing.",
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   {
    "text": "Husbandmen of the Wild,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Reaping a barren gain;",
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   {
    "text": "Scourged by desire, reconciled",
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   {
    "text": "Unto disaster and pain;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These my songs are for you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You who are seared with the brand:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "God knows I have tried to be true;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Please God you will understand.",
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