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  "venue": "November Boughs (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888)",
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    "text": "Simple and fresh and fair from winter’s close emerging,",
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    "text": "As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,",
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    "text": "Forth from its sunny nook of shelter’d grass⁠—innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,",
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