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    "text": "The summer nests uncovered by autumn wind.",
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    "text": "Some torn, others dislodged, all dark.",
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    "text": "Everyone sees them: low or high in tree,",
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    "text": "Or hedge, or single bush, they hang like a mark.",
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    "text": "Since there’s no need of eyes to see them with",
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    "text": "I cannot help a little shame",
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    "text": "That I missed most, even at eye’s level, till",
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    "text": "The leaves blew off and made the seeing no game.",
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    "text": "’Tis a light pang. I like to see the nests",
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    "text": "Still in their places, now first known,",
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    "text": "At home and by far roads. Boys knew them not,",
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    "text": "Whatever jays and squirrels may have done.",
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    "text": "And most I like the winter nests deep-hid",
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    "text": "That leaves and berries fell into;",
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    "text": "Once a dormouse dined there on hazel-nuts,",
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    "text": "And grass and goose-grass seeds found soil and grew.",
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