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    "text": "Yes. I remember Adlestrop⁠—",
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    "text": "The name, because one afternoon",
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    "text": "Of heat the express-train drew up there",
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   {
    "text": "Unwontedly. It was late June.",
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    "text": "The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.",
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    "text": "No one left and no one came",
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    "text": "On the bare platform. What I saw",
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    "text": "Was Adlestrop⁠—only the name",
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    "text": "And willows, willow-herb, and grass,",
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    "text": "And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,",
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    "text": "No whit less still and lonely fair",
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    "text": "Than the high cloudlets in the sky.",
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    "text": "And for that minute a blackbird sang",
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    "text": "Close by, and round him, mistier,",
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    "text": "Farther and farther, all the birds",
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