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    "text": "Noon! and in the garden bower",
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   {
    "text": "The hot air quivers o’er the grass",
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    "text": "The little lake is smooth as glass",
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   {
    "text": "And still so heavily the hour",
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   {
    "text": "Drags, that scarce the proudest flower",
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    "text": "Pressed upon its burning bed",
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    "text": "Has strength to lift a languid head:",
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    "text": "—Rose and fainting violet",
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    "text": "By the water’s margin set",
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    "text": "Swoon and sink as they were dead",
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   {
    "text": "Though their weary leaves be fed",
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    "text": "With the foam-drops of the pool",
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    "text": "Where it trembles dark and cool",
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    "text": "Wrinkled by the fountain spraying",
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    "text": "O’er it. And the honey-bee",
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    "text": "Hums his drowsy melody",
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    "text": "And wanders in his course a-straying",
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    "text": "Through the sweet and tangled glade",
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    "text": "With his golden mead o’erladen",
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    "text": "Where beneath the pleasant shade",
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    "text": "Of the darkling boughs a maiden",
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    "text": "—Milky limb and fiery tress,",
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    "text": "All at sweetest random laid⁠—",
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    "text": "Slumbers, drunken with the excess",
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    "text": "Of the noontide’s loveliness.",
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