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    "text": "Gone the wild day:",
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    "text": "Where the firm soaked road",
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    "text": "In the high beech-wood",
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    "text": "The beeches keep",
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    "text": "A stormy rest,",
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    "text": "Breathing deep",
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    "text": "The wood is black,",
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    "text": "But the woodman’s cot",
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    "text": "It smokes aloft",
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    "text": "It has no care",
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