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"ref": "1801, George Ellis, Specimens of the early English poets:",
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"ref": "1892, Francis Saultis, Dreams After Sunset:",
"text": "On fair Corea's shellèd stream, My fancy floats without restraint; Pagodas, wrought in porcelain, teem On every side, of fabric quaint. While genii pleased my sense to queme, the blue-foamed Yang-ste-Kiang, faint Before my gaze depict in dream, Ebbing its ripples with my plaint.",
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"ref": "1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature:",
"text": "Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);",
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"text": "On fair Corea's shellèd stream, My fancy floats without restraint; Pagodas, wrought in porcelain, teem On every side, of fabric quaint. While genii pleased my sense to queme, the blue-foamed Yang-ste-Kiang, faint Before my gaze depict in dream, Ebbing its ripples with my plaint.",
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