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    "text": "Do you remember, passer-by, the path",
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   {
    "text": "I wore across the lot where now stands the opera house,",
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   {
    "text": "Hasting with swift feet to work through many years?",
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   {
    "text": "Take its meaning to heart:",
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    "text": "You too may walk, after the hills at Miller’s Ford",
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   {
    "text": "Seem no longer far away;",
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   {
    "text": "Long after you see them near at hand,",
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    "text": "Beyond four miles of meadow;",
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   {
    "text": "And after woman’s love is silent",
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   {
    "text": "Saying no more: “l will save you.”",
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   {
    "text": "And after the faces of friends and kindred",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Become as faded photographs, pitifully silent,",
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   {
    "text": "Sad for the look which means: “We cannot help you.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And after you no longer reproach mankind",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With being in league against your soul’s uplifted hands⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Themselves compelled at midnight and at noon",
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   {
    "text": "To watch with steadfast eye their destinies;",
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   {
    "text": "After you have these understandings, think of me",
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    "text": "And of my path, who walked therein and knew",
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    "text": "That neither man nor woman, neither toil,",
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    "text": "Nor duty, gold nor power",
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    "text": "Can ease the longing of the soul,",
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    "text": "The loneliness of the soul!",
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