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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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    "text": "I dwelt alone",
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    "text": "In a world of moan,",
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    "text": "And my soul was a stagnant tide,",
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    "text": "Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride⁠—",
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    "text": "Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride.",
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    "text": "Ah, less⁠—less bright",
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   {
    "text": "The stars of the night",
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    "text": "Than the eyes of the radiant girl!",
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   {
    "text": "And never a flake",
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   {
    "text": "That the vapor can make",
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    "text": "With the moon-tints of purple and pearl,",
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    "text": "Can vie with the modest Eulalie’s most unregarded curl⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Can compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie’s most humble and careless curl.",
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   {
    "text": "Now Doubt⁠—now Pain",
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   {
    "text": "Come never again,",
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   {
    "text": "For her soul gives me sigh for sigh,",
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   {
    "text": "And all day long",
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   {
    "text": "Shines, bright and strong,",
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    "text": "Astarté within the sky,",
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   {
    "text": "While ever to her dear Eulalie upturns her matron eye⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "While ever to her young Eulalie upturns her violet eye.",
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