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    "text": "The happiest day⁠—the happiest hour",
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    "text": "My seared and blighted heart hath known,",
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    "text": "Of power! said I? Yes! such I ween",
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    "text": "But they have vanished long, alas!",
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    "text": "The visions of my youth have been⁠—",
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    "text": "And pride, what have I now with thee?",
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    "text": "Another brow may ev’n inherit",
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    "text": "The venom thou hast poured on me⁠—",
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    "text": "The happiest day⁠—the happiest hour",
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    "text": "Mine eyes shall see⁠—have ever seen",
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    "text": "Ev’n then I felt⁠—that brightest hour",
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    "text": "For on its wing was dark alloy",
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    "text": "And as it fluttered⁠—fell",
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