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    "text": "Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring",
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   {
    "text": "After each other drifting, past my window drifting!",
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   {
    "text": "And I lay so many years watching them drift and counting",
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    "text": "The years till a terror came in my heart at times,",
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   {
    "text": "With the feeling that I had become eternal; at last",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My hundredth year was reached! And still I lay",
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    "text": "Hearing the tick of the clock, and the low of cattle",
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   {
    "text": "And the scream of a jay flying through falling leaves!",
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   {
    "text": "Day after day alone in a room of the house",
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   {
    "text": "Of a daughter-in-law stricken with age and gray.",
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    "text": "And by night, or looking out of the window by day",
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   {
    "text": "My thought ran back, it seemed, through infinite time",
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   {
    "text": "To North Carolina and all my girlhood days,",
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    "text": "And John, my John, away to the war with the British,",
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    "text": "And all the children, the deaths, and all the sorrows.",
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    "text": "And that stretch of years like a prairie in Illinois",
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   {
    "text": "Through which great figures passed like hurrying horsemen,",
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   {
    "text": "Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Webster, Clay.",
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   {
    "text": "O beautiful young republic for whom my John and I",
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   {
    "text": "Gave all of our strength and love!",
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   {
    "text": "And O my John!",
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    "text": "Why, when I lay so helpless in bed for years,",
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    "text": "Praying for you to come, was your coming delayed?",
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    "text": "Seeing that with a cry of rapture, like that I uttered",
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    "text": "When you found me in old Virginia after the war,",
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    "text": "I cried when I beheld you there by the bed,",
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   {
    "text": "As the sun stood low in the west growing smaller and fainter",
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   {
    "text": "In the light of your face!",
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