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    "text": "The silent woods stood wan,",
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    "text": "Palely their torches flare,",
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    "text": "While rob’d in white they bear",
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    "text": "Her corpse that was most fair",
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    "text": "Of them that die,",
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    "text": "By sleeping forests tall",
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    "text": "The orbed moon looks down",
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    "text": "Upon her golden crown,",
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    "text": "From out the forest brown",
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    "text": "The moon shines full o’erhead,",
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