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    "text": "How shall the burial rite be read?",
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    "text": "The solemn song be sung?",
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    "text": "The requiem for the loveliest dead,",
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    "text": "That ever died so young?",
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    "text": "Her friends are gazing on her,",
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    "text": "And on her gaudy bier,",
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    "text": "They loved her for her wealth⁠—",
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    "text": "But she grew in feeble health,",
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    "text": "They tell me (while they speak",
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    "text": "Of her “costly broider’d pall”)",
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    "text": "That my voice is growing weak⁠—",
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    "text": "That I should not sing at all⁠—",
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    "text": "Or that my tone should be",
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    "text": "Tun’d to such solemn song",
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    "text": "So mournfully⁠—so mournfully,",
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    "text": "That the dead may feel no wrong.",
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    "text": "But she is gone above,",
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    "text": "With young Hope at her side,",
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    "text": "And I am drunk with love",
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    "text": "Of the dead, who is my bride.⁠—",
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    "text": "Of the dead⁠—dead who lies",
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    "text": "All perfum’d there,",
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    "text": "With the death upon her eyes,",
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    "text": "And the life upon her hair.",
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    "text": "Thus on the coffin loud and long",
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    "text": "I strike⁠—the murmur sent",
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    "text": "Through the gray chambers to my song,",
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    "text": "Shall be the accompaniment.",
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    "text": "Thou diedst in thy life’s June⁠—",
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    "text": "But thou didst not die too fair:",
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    "text": "Thou didst not die too soon,",
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    "text": "Nor with too calm an air.",
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    "text": "From more than friends on earth,",
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    "text": "Thy life and love are riven,",
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    "text": "To join the untainted mirth",
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    "text": "Of more than thrones in heaven.⁠—",
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    "text": "Therefore, to thee this night",
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    "text": "I will no requiem raise,",
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    "text": "But waft thee on thy flight,",
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    "text": "With a Paean of old days.",
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