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    "text": "Out in the dark over the snow",
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    "text": "The fallow fawns invisible go",
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    "text": "With the fallow doe;",
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    "text": "And the winds blow",
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    "text": "Fast as the stars are slow.",
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    "text": "Stealthily the dark haunts round",
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    "text": "And, when a lamp goes, without sound",
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    "text": "At a swifter bound",
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   {
    "text": "Than the swiftest hound,",
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    "text": "Arrives, and all else is drowned;",
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    "text": "And I and star and wind and deer,",
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    "text": "Are in the dark together⁠—near,",
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    "text": "Yet far⁠—and fear",
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    "text": "Drums on my ear",
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    "text": "In that sage company drear.",
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    "text": "How weak and little is the light,",
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   {
    "text": "All the universe of sight,",
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    "text": "Love and delight,",
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   {
    "text": "Before the might,",
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    "text": "If you love it not, of night.",
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