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  "year": 1888,
  "venue": "November Boughs (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "To those who’ve fail’d, in aspiration vast,",
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   {
    "text": "To unnam’d soldiers fallen in front on the lead,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To calm, devoted engineers⁠—to over-ardent travelers⁠—to pilots on their ships,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To many a lofty song and picture without recognition⁠—I’d rear a laurel-cover’d monument,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "High, high above the rest⁠—To all cut off before their time,",
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   {
    "text": "Possess’d by some strange spirit of fire,",
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   {
    "text": "Quench’d by an early death.",
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