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    "text": "Helen, thy beauty is to me",
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    "text": "Like those Nicean barks of yore,",
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    "text": "Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,",
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    "text": "Thy Naiad airs have brought me home",
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    "text": "To the glory that was Greece,",
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    "text": "Lo! in yon brilliant window niche",
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    "text": "How statue-like I me thee stand,",
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    "text": "The agate lamp within thy hand!",
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    "text": "Ah, Psyche, from the regions which",
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