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    "text": "Romance, who loves to nod and sing,",
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    "text": "To me a painted paroquet",
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    "text": "Hath been⁠—a most familiar bird⁠—",
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    "text": "Of late, eternal Condor years",
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    "text": "So shake the very Heaven on high",
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    "text": "With tumult as they thunder by,",
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    "text": "I have no time for idle cares",
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    "text": "Its down upon my spirit flings⁠—",
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    "text": "To while away⁠—forbidden things!",
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