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    "text": "Faeries must be in the woods",
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   {
    "text": "Or the satyr’s laughing broods⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Tritons in the summer sea,",
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   {
    "text": "Else how could the dead things be",
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   {
    "text": "Half so lovely as they are?",
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   {
    "text": "How could wealth of star on star",
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   {
    "text": "Dusted o’er the frosty night",
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   {
    "text": "Fill thy spirit with delight",
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   {
    "text": "And lead thee from this care of thine",
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   {
    "text": "Up among the dreams divine,",
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   {
    "text": "Were it not that each and all",
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    "text": "Of them that walk the heavenly hall",
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    "text": "Is in truth a happy isle,",
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   {
    "text": "Where eternal meadows smile,",
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   {
    "text": "And golden globes of fruit are seen",
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    "text": "Twinkling through the orchards green;",
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    "text": "Were the Other People go",
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    "text": "On the bright sward to and fro?",
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    "text": "Atoms dead could never thus",
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    "text": "Stir the human heart of us",
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    "text": "Unless the beauty that we see",
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    "text": "The veil of endless beauty be,",
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    "text": "Filled full of spirits that have trod",
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    "text": "Far hence along the heavenly sod",
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    "text": "And see the bright footprints of God.",
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