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   {
    "text": "Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick,",
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   {
    "text": "Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a quarrel⁠—",
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    "text": "Faint iambics that the full breeze wakens⁠—",
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    "text": "But the pine tree makes a symphony thereof.",
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    "text": "Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus,",
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    "text": "Ballades by the score with the same old thought:",
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    "text": "The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;",
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   {
    "text": "And what is love but a rose that fades?",
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   {
    "text": "Life all around me here in the village:",
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   {
    "text": "Tragedy, comedy, valor and truth,",
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   {
    "text": "Courage, constancy, heroism, failure⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "All in the loom, and oh what patterns!",
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   {
    "text": "Woodlands, meadows, streams and rivers⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Blind to all of it all my life long.",
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    "text": "Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus,",
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    "text": "Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick,",
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    "text": "Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics,",
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    "text": "While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines?",
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