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    "text": "Over known fields with an old friend in dream",
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    "text": "I walked, but came sudden to a strange stream.",
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    "text": "Its dark waters were bursting out most bright",
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    "text": "From a great mountain’s heart into the light.",
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    "text": "They ran a short course under the sun, then back",
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    "text": "Into a pit they plunged, once more as black",
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    "text": "As at their birth; and I stood thinking there",
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   {
    "text": "How white, had the day shone on them, they were,",
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   {
    "text": "Heaving and coiling. So by the roar and hiss",
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    "text": "And by the mighty motion of the abyss",
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    "text": "I was bemused, that I forgot my friend",
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    "text": "And neither saw nor sought him till the end,",
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    "text": "When I awoke from waters unto men",
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    "text": "Saying: “I shall be here some day again.”",
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