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 "title": "Santa Agueda",
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 "poet": "Voltairine de Cleyre",
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 "language": "en",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1900,
  "venue": "The Worm Turns (Philadelphia, Innes & Sons, Printers, 1900)",
  "note": "First located printing. Read in the Anarchy Archives transcription of the pamphlet, made from the International Institute of Social History copy: the title page reads “The Worm Turns, by V. De Cleyre, Philadelphia, Innes & Sons, Printers, 200 South Tenth Street, 1900”, and the poem is printed there over the dateline “Philadelphia, August, 1898”. A transcription rather than a scan, and the two-year gap between the dateline and the pamphlet leaves an earlier periodical printing unruled-out.",
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  "sources": [
   "http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/cleyre/worm.html"
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   "https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/voltairine-de-cleyre-collected-poems",
   "https://www.google.com/books/edition/Free_Thought_Magazine/KNOMrVNM4CgC",
   "https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Open_Court/711CAQAAMAAJ",
   "https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Open_Court/6qzQAAAAMAAJ",
   "https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Worm_Turns/wslHAQAAMAAJ",
   "https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/voltairine-de-cleyre-a-new-hope",
   "https://archive.org/details/BostonInvestigator_1893-03-15"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "Santa Agueda, thou that wast accursed",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With presence of a demon dressed in Man,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Blessed art thou, for on thy stones there ran",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The vampire blood from bitter torture nursed;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Along thy streets there flashed the lightning-burst,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Delivered!” flaming on from eye to eye,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though lips said “killed,” and all thy gateways hearsed",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In lying black, made mourning mockery.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Blessed art thou! From thee went forth the cry,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Vengeance yet loves, Renunciation hates,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And justice smites: the torturer shall die;”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Across his path the steel-nerved slayer waits",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“And both shall burn together,”⁠—one in light",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of unconsuming hell and reddened night;",
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   {
    "text": "And one with feet on hell and brow dawn-rayed, pure white.",
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