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 "title": "Lights Out",
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    "text": "I have come to the borders of sleep,",
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   {
    "text": "The unfathomable deep",
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    "text": "Forest where all must lose",
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    "text": "Their way, however straight,",
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    "text": "Or winding, soon or late;",
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    "text": "They cannot choose.",
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    "text": "Many a road and track",
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   {
    "text": "That, since the dawn’s first crack,",
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    "text": "Up to the forest brink,",
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   {
    "text": "Deceived the travellers",
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    "text": "Suddenly now blurs,",
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    "text": "And in they sink.",
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    "text": "Here love ends,",
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    "text": "Despair, ambition ends,",
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    "text": "All pleasure and all trouble,",
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    "text": "Although most sweet or bitter,",
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    "text": "Here ends in sleep that is sweeter",
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    "text": "Than tasks most noble.",
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    "text": "There is not any book",
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    "text": "Or face of dearest look",
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    "text": "That I would not turn from now",
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    "text": "To go into the unknown",
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    "text": "I must enter and leave alone",
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    "text": "I know not how.",
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    "text": "The tall forest towers;",
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    "text": "Its cloudy foliage lowers",
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    "text": "Ahead, shelf above shelf;",
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    "text": "Its silence I hear and obey",
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    "text": "That I may lose my way",
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    "text": "And myself.",
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