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    "text": "An acre of land between the shore and the hills,",
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   {
    "text": "Upon a ledge that shows my kingdoms three,",
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    "text": "The lovely visible earth and sky and sea,",
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    "text": "Where what the curlew needs not, the farmer tills:",
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    "text": "A house that shall love me as I love it,",
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    "text": "Well-hedged, and honoured by a few ash-trees",
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    "text": "That linnets, greenfinches, and goldfinches",
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    "text": "Shall often visit and make love in and flit:",
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    "text": "A garden I need never go beyond,",
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    "text": "Broken but neat, whose sunflowers every one",
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    "text": "Are fit to be the sign of the Rising Sun:",
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    "text": "A spring, a brook’s bend, or at least a pond:",
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    "text": "For these I ask not, but, neither too late",
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    "text": "Nor yet too early, for what men call content,",
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