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    "text": "In the greenest of our valleys",
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    "text": "By good angels tenanted,",
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    "text": "Once a fair and stately palace⁠—",
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    "text": "Radiant palace⁠—reared its head.",
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    "text": "In the monarch Thought’s dominion⁠—",
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    "text": "It stood there!",
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    "text": "Never seraph spread a pinion",
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    "text": "Over fabric half so fair!",
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    "text": "Banners yellow, glorious, golden,",
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    "text": "On its roof did float and flow,",
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    "text": "(This⁠—all this⁠—was in the olden",
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    "text": "Time long ago),",
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    "text": "And every gentle air that dallied,",
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    "text": "In that sweet day,",
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    "text": "Along the ramparts plumed and pallid,",
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    "text": "A wingèd odor went away.",
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    "text": "Wanderers in that happy valley,",
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    "text": "Through two luminous windows, saw",
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    "text": "Spirits moving musically,",
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    "text": "To a lute’s well-tunèd law,",
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    "text": "Round about a throne where, sitting",
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    "text": "(Porphyrogene!)",
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    "text": "In state his glory well befitting,",
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    "text": "The ruler of the realm was seen.",
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    "text": "And all with pearl and ruby glowing",
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    "text": "Was the fair palace door,",
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    "text": "Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing,",
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    "text": "And sparkling evermore,",
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    "text": "A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty",
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    "text": "Was but to sing,",
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    "text": "In voices of surpassing beauty,",
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    "text": "The wit and wisdom of their king.",
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    "text": "But evil things, in robes of sorrow,",
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    "text": "Assailed the monarch’s high estate.",
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    "text": "(Ah, let us mourn!⁠—for never morrow",
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    "text": "Shall dawn upon him desolate!)",
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    "text": "And round about his home the glory",
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    "text": "That blushed and bloomed,",
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    "text": "Is but a dim-remembered story",
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    "text": "Of the old time entombed.",
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    "text": "And travellers, now, within that valley,",
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    "text": "Through the red-litten windows see",
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    "text": "Vast forms, that move fantastically",
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    "text": "To a discordant melody,",
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    "text": "While, like a ghastly rapid river,",
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    "text": "Through the pale door",
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    "text": "A hideous throng rush out forever",
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   {
    "text": "And laugh⁠—but smile no more.",
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