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    "text": "But these things also are Spring’s⁠—",
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    "text": "On banks by the roadside the grass",
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    "text": "Long-dead that is greyer now",
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    "text": "Than all the Winter it was;",
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    "text": "The shell of a little snail bleached",
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    "text": "In the grass; chip of flint, and mite",
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    "text": "Of chalk; and the small birds’ dung",
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   {
    "text": "In splashes of purest white:",
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    "text": "All the white things a man mistakes",
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   {
    "text": "For earliest violets",
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    "text": "Who seeks through Winter’s ruins",
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    "text": "Something to pay Winter’s debts,",
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    "text": "While the North blows, and starling flocks",
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    "text": "By chattering on and on",
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    "text": "Keep their spirits up in the mist,",
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    "text": "And Spring’s here, Winter’s not gone.",
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