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    "text": "See! the pale autumn dawn",
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    "text": "And now from tree to tree",
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    "text": "It wreathes the burdened air",
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    "text": "So strangely everywhere",
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    "text": "That I could almost fear",
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    "text": "Where no one song-bird sings",
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    "text": "And dream that wizard things",
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    "text": "Drifting through middle air",
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    "text": "Yet these should know me too",
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    "text": "Lover and bondman true,",
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    "text": "Of earth’s most solemn hours",
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