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"ref": "1939, Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Poetry, volumes 53-54, page 110:",
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"ref": "2016, B. Spurr, See the Virgin Blest: The Virgin Mary in English Poetry, page 61:",
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