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 "title": "Home",
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    "text": "Often I had gone this way before:",
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    "text": "But now it seemed I never could be",
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    "text": "And never had been anywhere else;",
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    "text": "’Twas home; one nationality",
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    "text": "We had, I and the birds that sang,",
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   {
    "text": "They welcomed me. I had come back",
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   {
    "text": "That eve somehow from somewhere far:",
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   {
    "text": "The April mist, the chill, the calm,",
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   {
    "text": "Meant the same thing familiar",
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   {
    "text": "And pleasant to us, and strange too,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet with no bar.",
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    "text": "The thrush on the oaktop in the lane",
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    "text": "Sang his last song, or last but one;",
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    "text": "And as he ended, on the elm",
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    "text": "Another had but just begun",
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    "text": "His last; they knew no more than I",
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    "text": "The day was done.",
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    "text": "Then past his dark white cottage front",
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    "text": "A labourer went along, his tread",
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    "text": "Slow, half with weariness, half with ease;",
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    "text": "And, through the silence, from his shed",
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    "text": "The sound of sawing rounded all",
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    "text": "That silence said.",
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