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    "text": "It was many and many a year ago,",
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    "text": "In a kingdom by the sea,",
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    "text": "That a maiden lived whom you may know",
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    "text": "By the name of Annabel Lee;",
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    "text": "I was a child and she was a child,",
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    "text": "In this kingdom by the sea:",
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    "text": "But we loved with a love that was more than love⁠—",
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    "text": "I and my Annabel Lee;",
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    "text": "And this was the reason that, long ago,",
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    "text": "In this kingdom by the sea,",
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    "text": "A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling",
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    "text": "My beautiful Annabel Lee;",
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    "text": "So that her highborn kinsmen came",
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    "text": "The angels, not half so happy in heaven,",
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    "text": "Went envying her and me⁠—",
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    "text": "Yes!⁠—that was the reason (as all men know,",
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    "text": "In this kingdom by the sea)",
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    "text": "That the wind came out of the cloud by night,",
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    "text": "Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.",
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    "text": "But our love it was stronger by far than the love",
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    "text": "Of those who were older than we⁠—",
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    "text": "Of many far wiser than we⁠—",
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    "text": "And neither the angels in heaven above,",
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    "text": "Nor the demons down under the sea,",
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    "text": "Can ever dissever my soul from the soul",
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    "text": "Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.",
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    "text": "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams",
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    "text": "Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;",
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    "text": "And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes",
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    "text": "Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;",
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    "text": "And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side",
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    "text": "Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,",
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    "text": "In her sepulchre there by the sea⁠—",
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    "text": "In her tomb by the side of the sea.",
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