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    "text": "Passer-by,",
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   {
    "text": "To love is to find your own soul",
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   {
    "text": "Through the soul of the beloved one.",
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   {
    "text": "When the beloved one withdraws itself from your soul",
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   {
    "text": "Then you have lost your soul.",
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   {
    "text": "It is written: “I have a friend,",
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   {
    "text": "But my sorrow has no friend.”",
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   {
    "text": "Hence my long years of solitude at the home of my father,",
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   {
    "text": "Trying to get myself back,",
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   {
    "text": "And to turn my sorrow into a supremer self.",
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    "text": "But there was my father with his sorrows,",
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   {
    "text": "Sitting under the cedar tree,",
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    "text": "A picture that sank into my heart at last",
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   {
    "text": "Bringing infinite repose.",
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   {
    "text": "Oh, ye souls who have made life",
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    "text": "Fragrant and white as tube roses",
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   {
    "text": "From earth’s dark soil,",
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    "text": "Eternal peace!",
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