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    "text": "Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!",
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    "text": "My spirit not awakening, till the beam",
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    "text": "Of an Eternity should bring the morrow.",
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    "text": "Yes! though that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,",
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    "text": "’Twere better than the cold reality",
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    "text": "Of waking life, to him whose heart must be,",
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    "text": "And hath been still, on the lovely earth,",
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    "text": "A chaos of deep passion, from his birth.",
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    "text": "But should it be⁠—that dream eternally",
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    "text": "Continuing⁠—as dreams have been to me",
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    "text": "In my young boyhood⁠—should it thus be given,",
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    "text": "’Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven.",
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    "text": "For I have revelled when the sun was bright",
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    "text": "I’ the summer sky, in dreams of living light,",
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    "text": "And loveliness⁠—have left my very heart",
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    "text": "Inclines of my imaginary apart",
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    "text": "From mine own home, with beings that have been",
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    "text": "Of mine own thought⁠—what more could I have seen?",
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    "text": "’Twas once⁠—and only once⁠—and the wild hour",
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    "text": "From my remembrance shall not pass⁠—some power",
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    "text": "Or spell had bound me⁠—’twas the chilly wind",
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    "text": "Came o’er me in the night, and left behind",
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    "text": "Its image on my spirit⁠—or the moon",
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    "text": "Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon",
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    "text": "Too coldly⁠—or the stars⁠—howe’er it was",
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    "text": "That dream was as that night-wind⁠—let it pass.",
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    "text": "I have been happy⁠—though in a dream.",
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    "text": "I have been happy⁠—and I love the theme:",
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    "text": "Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life",
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    "text": "As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife",
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    "text": "Of semblance with reality which brings",
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    "text": "To the delirious eye, more lovely things",
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    "text": "Of Paradise and Love⁠—and all my own!⁠—",
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    "text": "Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known.",
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