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 "title": "Dreamland",
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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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    "text": "By a route obscure and lonely,",
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    "text": "Haunted by ill angels only,",
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    "text": "Where an Eidolon, named Night,",
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    "text": "On a black throne reigns upright,",
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   {
    "text": "I have reached these lands but newly",
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    "text": "From an ultimate dim Thule⁠—",
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    "text": "From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,",
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    "text": "Out of Space⁠—out of Time.",
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    "text": "Bottomless vales and boundless floods,",
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    "text": "And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods,",
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    "text": "With forms that no man can discover",
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    "text": "For the dews that drip all over;",
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    "text": "Mountains toppling evermore",
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    "text": "Into seas without a shore;",
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    "text": "Seas that restlessly aspire,",
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    "text": "Surging, unto skies of fire;",
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    "text": "Lakes that endlessly outspread",
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    "text": "Their lone waters⁠—lone and dead,",
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    "text": "Their still waters⁠—still and chilly",
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    "text": "With the snows of the lolling lily.",
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    "text": "By the lakes that thus outspread",
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    "text": "Their lone waters, lone and dead⁠—",
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    "text": "Their sad waters, sad and chilly",
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    "text": "With the snows of the lolling lily⁠—",
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    "text": "By the mountains⁠—near the river",
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    "text": "Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever⁠—",
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    "text": "By the gray woods⁠—by the swamp",
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    "text": "Where the toad and the newt encamp⁠—",
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    "text": "By the dismal tarns and pools",
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    "text": "Where dwell the Ghouls⁠—",
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    "text": "By each spot the most unholy⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "In each nook most melancholy⁠—",
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    "text": "There the traveller meets aghast",
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    "text": "Sheeted Memories of the Past⁠—",
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    "text": "Shrouded forms that start and sigh",
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    "text": "As they pass the wanderer by⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "White-robed forms of friends long given,",
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    "text": "In agony, to the Earth⁠—and Heaven.",
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    "text": "For the heart whose woes are legion",
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    "text": "’Tis a peaceful, soothing region⁠—",
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    "text": "For the spirit that walks in shadow",
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    "text": "’Tis⁠—oh ’tis an Eldorado!",
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    "text": "But the traveller, travelling through it,",
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    "text": "May not⁠—dare not openly view it;",
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    "text": "Never its mysteries are exposed",
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    "text": "To the weak human eye unclosed;",
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    "text": "So wills its King, who hath forbid",
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    "text": "The uplifting of the fringèd lid;",
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    "text": "And thus the sad Soul that here passes",
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    "text": "Beholds it but through darkened glasses.",
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    "text": "By a route obscure and lonely,",
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    "text": "Haunted by ill angels only,",
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    "text": "Where an Eidolon, named Night,",
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    "text": "On a black throne reigns upright,",
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    "text": "I have wandered home but newly",
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    "text": "From this ultimate dim Thule.",
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