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 "title": "To Sleep",
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    "text": "I will find out a place for thee, O Sleep⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "A hidden wood among the hill-tops green,",
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    "text": "Full of soft streams and little winds that creep",
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    "text": "The murmuring boughs between.",
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    "text": "A hollow cup above the ocean placed",
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    "text": "Where nothing rough, nor loud, nor harsh shall be,",
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    "text": "But woodland light and shadow interlaced",
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    "text": "And summer sky and sea.",
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    "text": "There in the fragrant twilight I will raise",
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    "text": "A secret altar of the rich sea sod,",
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    "text": "Whereat to offer sacrifice and praise",
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    "text": "Unto my lonely god:",
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    "text": "Due sacrifice of his own drowsy flowers,",
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    "text": "The deadening poppies in an ocean shell",
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    "text": "Round which through all forgotten days and hours",
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    "text": "The great seas wove their spell.",
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    "text": "So may he send me dreams of dear delight",
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    "text": "And draughts of cool oblivion, quenching pain,",
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    "text": "And sweet, half-wakeful moments in the night",
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    "text": "To hear the falling rain.",
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    "text": "And when he meets me at the dusk of day",
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    "text": "To call me home for ever, this I ask⁠—",
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    "text": "That he may lead me friendly on that way",
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    "text": "And wear no frightful mask.",
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