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    "text": "Do the boys and girls still go to Siever’s",
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   {
    "text": "For cider, after school, in late September?",
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    "text": "Or gather hazel nuts among the thickets",
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    "text": "On Aaron Hatfield’s farm when the frosts begin?",
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    "text": "For many times with the laughing girls and boys",
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    "text": "Played I along the road and over the hills",
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    "text": "When the sun was low and the air was cool,",
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    "text": "Stopping to club the walnut tree",
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    "text": "Standing leafless against a flaming west.",
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    "text": "Now, the smell of the autumn smoke,",
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    "text": "And the dropping acorns,",
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    "text": "And the echoes about the vales",
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    "text": "Bring dreams of life. They hover over me.",
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    "text": "They question me:",
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    "text": "Where are those laughing comrades?",
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    "text": "How many are with me, how many",
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    "text": "In the old orchards along the way to Siever’s,",
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    "text": "And in the woods that overlook",
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