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 "poet": "Voltairine de Cleyre",
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  "year": 1892,
  "venue": "The Open Court, no. 230 (Vol. VI.—3), 21 January 1892, pp. 3118-3119",
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    "text": "I am! The ages on the ages roll;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And what I am, I was, and I shall be:",
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   {
    "text": "By slow growth filling higher Destiny,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And widening, ever, to the widening Goal.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I am the Stone that slept; down deep in me",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That old, old sleep has left its centurine trace;",
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   {
    "text": "I am the Plant that dreamed; and lo! still see",
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   {
    "text": "That dream-life dwelling on the Human Face.",
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   {
    "text": "I slept, I dreamed, I wakened: I am Man!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The hut grows Palaces; the depths breed light;",
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   {
    "text": "Still on! Forms pass; but Form yields kinglier Might!",
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   {
    "text": "The singer, dying where his song began,",
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   {
    "text": "In Me yet lives; and yet again shall he",
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   {
    "text": "Unseal the lips of greater songs To Be;",
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   {
    "text": "For mine the thousand tongues of Immortality.",
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