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    "text": "After a long day of work in my hot-houses",
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    "text": "Sleep was sweet, but if you sleep on your left side",
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    "text": "Your dreams may be abruptly ended.",
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   {
    "text": "I was among my flowers where someone",
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    "text": "Seemed to be raising them on trial,",
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    "text": "As if after-while to be transplanted",
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    "text": "And I was disembodied vision",
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    "text": "Amid a light, as it were the sun",
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    "text": "Had floated in and touched the roof of glass",
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    "text": "Like a toy balloon and softly bursted,",
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    "text": "And etherealized in golden air.",
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    "text": "And all was silence, except the splendor",
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    "text": "Was immanent with thought as clear",
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    "text": "As a speaking voice, and I, as thought,",
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    "text": "Could hear a Presence think as he walked",
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    "text": "Between the boxes pinching off leaves,",
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    "text": "Looking for bugs and noting values,",
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    "text": "With an eye that saw it all:⁠—",
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    "text": "“Homer, oh yes! Pericles, good.",
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    "text": "Caesar Borgia, what shall be done with it?",
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    "text": "Dante, too much manure, perhaps.",
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    "text": "Napoleon, leave him awhile as yet.",
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    "text": "Shelley, more soil. Shakespeare, needs spraying⁠—”",
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    "text": "Clouds, eh!⁠—",
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