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    "text": "The last light has gone out of the world, except",
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    "text": "This moonlight lying on the grass like frost",
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    "text": "Beyond the brink of the tall elm’s shadow.",
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    "text": "It is as if everything else had slept",
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    "text": "Many an age, unforgotten and lost",
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    "text": "The men that were, the things done, long ago,",
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    "text": "All I have thought; and but the moon and I",
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    "text": "Live yet and here stand idle over the grave",
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    "text": "Where all is buried. Both have liberty",
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    "text": "To dream what we could do if we were free",
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    "text": "To do some thing we had desired long,",
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    "text": "The moon and I. There’s none less free than who",
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    "text": "Does nothing and has nothing else to do,",
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    "text": "Being free only for what is not to his mind,",
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    "text": "And nothing is to his mind. If every hour",
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    "text": "Like this one passing that I have spent among",
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    "text": "The wiser others when I have forgot",
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    "text": "To wonder whether I was free or not,",
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    "text": "Were piled before me, and not lost behind,",
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    "text": "And I could take and carry them away",
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    "text": "I should be rich; or if I had the power",
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    "text": "To wipe out every one and not again",
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    "text": "Regret, I should be rich to be so poor.",
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    "text": "And yet I still am half in love with pain,",
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    "text": "With what is imperfect, with both tears and mirth,",
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    "text": "With things that have an end, with life and earth,",
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    "text": "And this moon that leaves me dark within the door.",
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