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    "text": "It was upon a July evening.",
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    "text": "At a stile I stood, looking along a path",
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    "text": "Over the country by a second Spring",
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    "text": "Drenched perfect green again. “The lattermath",
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   {
    "text": "Will be a fine one.” So the stranger said,",
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   {
    "text": "A wandering man. Albeit I stood at rest,",
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   {
    "text": "Flushed with desire I was. The earth outspread,",
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    "text": "Like meadows of the future, I possessed.",
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    "text": "And as an unaccomplished prophecy",
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    "text": "The stranger’s words, after the interval",
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    "text": "Of a score years, when those fields are by me",
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    "text": "Never to be recrossed, now I recall,",
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    "text": "This July eve, and question, wondering,",
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    "text": "What of the lattermath to this hoar Spring?",
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