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 "poet": "William Carlos Williams",
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    "text": "Lift your flowers",
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    "text": "on bitter stems",
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    "text": "chickory!",
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    "text": "Lift them up",
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    "text": "out of the scorched ground!",
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    "text": "Bear no foliage",
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    "text": "but give yourself",
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    "text": "wholly to that!",
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    "text": "Strain under them",
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    "text": "you bitter stems",
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    "text": "that no beast eats⁠—",
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    "text": "and scorn greyness!",
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    "text": "Into the heat with them:",
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    "text": "cool!",
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    "text": "luxuriant! sky-blue!",
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    "text": "The earth cracks and",
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    "text": "is shriveled up;",
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    "text": "the wind moans piteously;",
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    "text": "if you should fail.",
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    "text": "I saw a child with daisies",
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    "text": "for weaving into the hair",
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    "text": "tear the stems",
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    "text": "with her teeth!",
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