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    "text": "Early one morning in May I set out,",
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    "text": "There was no wind to trouble the weathercocks.",
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    "text": "I heard the brook through the town gardens run.",
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    "text": "O sweet was the mud turned to dust by the sun.",
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    "text": "A gate banged in a fence and banged in my head.",
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    "text": "“A fine morning, sir,” a shepherd said.",
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    "text": "I could not return from my liberty,",
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    "text": "To my youth and my love and my misery.",
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