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    "text": "With saintly grace and reverent tread,",
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   {
    "text": "She walked among the graves with me;",
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    "text": "Her every foot-fall seemed to be",
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    "text": "The guardian spirit of the place",
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    "text": "She seemed, and I some ghost forlorn",
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    "text": "Surprised in the untimely morn",
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    "text": "She made with her resplendent face.",
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    "text": "Moved by some waywardness of will,",
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    "text": "Three paces from the path apart",
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    "text": "She stepped and stood⁠—my prescient heart",
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    "text": "Was stricken with a passing chill.",
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    "text": "The folk-lore of the years agone",
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    "text": "Remembering, I smiled and thought:",
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    "text": "“Who shudders suddenly at naught,",
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    "text": "His grave is being trod upon.”",
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    "text": "But now I know that it was more",
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    "text": "Than idle fancy. O, my sweet,",
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    "text": "I did not think such little feet",
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    "text": "Could make a buried heart so sore!",
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