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    "text": "As sweet as the look of a lover",
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    "text": "Saluting the eyes of a maid,",
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    "text": "Sing therefore high praises, and therefore",
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    "text": "Nor ask of their meaning, nor wherefore",
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    "text": "They charm as of yore, for behold!",
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    "text": "Sing songs of the pride of the mountains,",
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    "text": "And the fountains that fall to the seas",
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    "text": "From the hands of the hills, and the fountains",
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    "text": "That shine in the temples of trees,",
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    "text": "Sing songs that are dreamy and tender,",
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    "text": "Of slender Arabian palms,",
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    "text": "And shadows that circle the palms,",
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    "text": "Where caravans, veiled from the splendor,",
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    "text": "Barbaric, O Man, was thy runing",
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    "text": "When mountains were stained as with wine",
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    "text": "By the dawning of Time, and as wine",
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    "text": "Were the seas, yet its echoes are crooning,",
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    "text": "Achant in the gusty pine",
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