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  "venue": "The Harvard Advocate, vol. 86, no. 9 (26 January 1909)",
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    "text": "Among a crowd of tenuous dreams, unknown",
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   {
    "text": "To us of restless brain and weary feet,",
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    "text": "Forever hurrying, up and down the street,",
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    "text": "She stands at evening in the room alone.",
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    "text": "Not like a tranquil goddess carved of stone",
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    "text": "But evanescent, as if one should meet",
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    "text": "A pensive lamia in some wood-retreat,",
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    "text": "An immaterial fancy of one’s own.",
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    "text": "No meditations glad or ominous",
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    "text": "Disturb her lips, or move the slender hands;",
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    "text": "Her dark eyes keep their secrets hid from us,",
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    "text": "The parrot on the bar, a silent spy,",
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