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    "text": "And you, Helen, what should I give you?",
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    "text": "So many things I would give you",
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    "text": "Had I an infinite great store",
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    "text": "Offered me and I stood before",
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   {
    "text": "To choose. I would give you youth,",
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   {
    "text": "All kinds of loveliness and truth,",
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   {
    "text": "A clear eye as good as mine,",
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    "text": "Lands, waters, flowers, wine,",
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    "text": "As many children as your heart",
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    "text": "Might wish for, a far better art",
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   {
    "text": "Than mine can be, all you have lost",
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    "text": "Upon the travelling waters tossed,",
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    "text": "Or given to me. If I could choose",
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    "text": "Freely in that great treasure-house",
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    "text": "Anything from any shelf,",
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    "text": "I would give you back yourself,",
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    "text": "And power to discriminate",
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    "text": "What you want and want it not too late,",
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    "text": "Many fair days free from care",
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    "text": "And heart to enjoy both foul and fair,",
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    "text": "And myself, too, if I could find",
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    "text": "Where it lay hidden and it proved kind.",
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