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    "text": "’Twas noontide of summer,",
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    "text": "And midtime of night,",
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    "text": "And stars, in their orbits,",
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    "text": "Shone pale, through the light",
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    "text": "Of the brighter, cold moon.",
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    "text": "’Mid planets her slaves,",
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    "text": "Herself in the Heavens,",
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    "text": "Her beam on the waves.",
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    "text": "I gazed awhile",
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    "text": "On her cold smile;",
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    "text": "Too cold⁠—too cold for me⁠—",
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    "text": "There passed, as a shroud,",
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    "text": "A fleecy cloud,",
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    "text": "And I turned away to thee,",
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    "text": "Proud Evening Star,",
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    "text": "In thy glory afar",
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    "text": "And dearer thy beam shall be;",
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    "text": "For joy to my heart",
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    "text": "Is the proud part",
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    "text": "Thou bearest in Heaven at night,",
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    "text": "And more I admire",
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    "text": "Thy distant fire,",
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    "text": "Than that colder, lowly light.",
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