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 "title": "Night",
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    "text": "I know a little Druid wood",
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    "text": "Where I would slumber if I could",
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    "text": "And have the murmuring of the stream",
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    "text": "To mingle with a midnight dream,",
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    "text": "And have the holy hazel trees",
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    "text": "To play above me in the breeze,",
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    "text": "And smell the thorny eglantine;",
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    "text": "For there the white owls all night long",
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    "text": "In the scented gloom divine",
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    "text": "Hear the wild, strange, tuneless song",
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   {
    "text": "Of faerie voices, thin and high",
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   {
    "text": "As the bat’s unearthly cry,",
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   {
    "text": "And the measure of their shoon",
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    "text": "Dancing, dancing, under the moon,",
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   {
    "text": "Until, amid the pale of dawn",
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   {
    "text": "The wandering stars begin to swoon.⁠ ⁠…",
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   {
    "text": "Ah, leave the world and come away!",
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   {
    "text": "The windy folk are in the glade,",
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    "text": "And men have seen their revels, laid",
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    "text": "In secret on some flowery lawn",
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    "text": "Underneath the beechen covers",
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    "text": "Kings of old, I’ve heard them say,",
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    "text": "Here have found them faerie lovers",
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    "text": "That charmed them out of life and kissed",
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    "text": "Their lips with cold lips unafraid,",
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    "text": "And such a spell around them made",
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    "text": "That they have passed beyond the mist",
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    "text": "And fount eh Country-under-wave.⁠ ⁠…",
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    "text": "Kings of old, whom none could save!",
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