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 "poet": "Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis",
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  "venue": "The Liberator 4.5 (Boston, 1 February 1834)",
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   {
    "text": "Oh, woman, woman, in thy brightest hour",
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   {
    "text": "Of conscious worth, of pride, of conscious power,",
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   {
    "text": "Oh, nobly dare to act a Christian’s part,",
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   {
    "text": "That well befits a lovely woman’s heart!",
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   {
    "text": "Dare to be good, as thou canst dare be great;",
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   {
    "text": "Despise the taunts of envy, scorn and hate;",
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   {
    "text": "Our “skins may differ,” but from thee we claim",
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   {
    "text": "A sister’s privilege, in a sister’s name.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "We are thy sisters⁠—God has truly said,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That of one blood, the nations he has made.",
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   {
    "text": "Oh, Christian woman, in a Christian land,",
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   {
    "text": "Canst thou unblushing read this great command?",
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   {
    "text": "Suffer the wrongs which wring our inmost heart",
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   {
    "text": "To draw one throb of pity on thy part;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Our “skins may differ,” but from thee we claim",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A sister’s privilege, in a sister’s name.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Oh, woman!⁠—though upon thy fairer brow",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The hues of roses and of lilies glow⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These soon must wither in their kindred earth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From whence the fair and dark have equal birth.",
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   {
    "text": "Let a bright halo o’er thy virtues shed",
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   {
    "text": "A lustre, that shall live when thou art dead;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let coming ages learn to bless thy name",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Upon the altar of immortal fame.",
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