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 "title": "The Valley of Unrest",
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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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    "text": "Once it smiled a silent dell",
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    "text": "Where the people did not dwell;",
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   {
    "text": "They had gone unto the wars,",
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    "text": "Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,",
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    "text": "Nightly, from their azure towers,",
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    "text": "To keep watch above the flowers,",
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   {
    "text": "In the midst of which all day",
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   {
    "text": "The red sun-light lazily lay.",
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    "text": "Now each visitor shall confess",
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   {
    "text": "The sad valley’s restlessness.",
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    "text": "Nothing there is motionless⁠—",
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    "text": "Nothing save the airs that brood",
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    "text": "Over the magic solitude.",
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   {
    "text": "Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees",
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   {
    "text": "That palpitate like the chill seas",
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    "text": "Around the misty Hebrides!",
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    "text": "Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven",
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    "text": "That rustle through the unquiet Heaven",
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    "text": "Uneasily, from morn till even,",
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   {
    "text": "Over the violets there that lie",
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    "text": "In myriad types of the human eye⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Over the lilies there that wave",
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   {
    "text": "And weep above a nameless grave!",
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   {
    "text": "They wave:⁠—from out their fragrant tops",
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    "text": "Eternal dews come down in drops.",
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    "text": "They weep:⁠—from off their delicate stems",
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    "text": "Perennial tears descend in gems.",
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