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            <note>Poem included in the unsigned prose contribution <title level="a">Mark Akenside’s Love</title> (390-400) (EW). Poet attribution:
               Harriet Prescott Spofford, <title level="m">Poems</title> (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1882), p. 120. (AC)</note>
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