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 "poet": "T. S. Eliot",
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 "epigraph": "Quis hic locus, quae / regio, quae mundi plaga?",
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  "year": 1930,
  "venue": "Marina (London, Faber & Faber, 1930), The Ariel Poems no. 29",
  "note": "A single-poem pamphlet issued in the Ariel Poems series and catalogued as Gallup A17a; it is not modelled here as a volume in the poet's books. No earlier periodical printing has been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands",
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   {
    "text": "What water lapping the bow",
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   {
    "text": "And scent of pine and the woodthrush singing through the fog",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What images return",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O my daughter.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Those who sharpen the tooth of the dog, meaning",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Death",
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   {
    "text": "Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird, meaning",
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   {
    "text": "Death",
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    "text": "Those who sit in the stye of contentment, meaning",
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    "text": "Death",
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    "text": "Those who suffer the ecstasy of the animals, meaning",
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    "text": "Death",
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    "text": "Are become unsubstantial, reduced by a wind,",
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    "text": "A breath of pine, and the woodsong fog",
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    "text": "By this grace dissolved in place",
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   {
    "text": "What is this face, less clear and clearer",
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   {
    "text": "The pulse in the arm, less strong and stronger⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Given or lent? more distant than stars and nearer than the eye",
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    "text": "Whispers and small laughter between leaves and hurrying feet",
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   {
    "text": "Under sleep, where all the waters meet.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bowsprit cracked with ice and paint cracked with heat.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I made this, I have forgotten",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And remember.",
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   {
    "text": "The rigging weak and the canvas rotten",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Between one June and another September.",
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   {
    "text": "Made this unknowing, half conscious, unknown, my own.",
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   {
    "text": "The garboard strake leaks, the seams need caulking.",
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   {
    "text": "This form, this face, this life",
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   {
    "text": "Living to live in a world of time beyond me; let me",
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   {
    "text": "Resign my life for this life, my speech for that unspoken,",
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    "text": "The awakened, lips parted, the hope, the new ships.",
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    "text": "What seas what shores what granite islands towards my timbers",
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    "text": "And woodthrush calling through the fog",
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   {
    "text": "My daughter.",
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