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 "title": "Rain",
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    "text": "Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain",
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   {
    "text": "On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me",
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   {
    "text": "Remembering again that I shall die",
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   {
    "text": "And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks",
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   {
    "text": "For washing me cleaner than I have been",
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   {
    "text": "Since I was born into this solitude.",
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    "text": "Blessed are the dead that the rain rains upon:",
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   {
    "text": "But here I pray that none whom once I loved",
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    "text": "Is dying to-night or lying still awake",
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    "text": "Solitary, listening to the rain,",
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   {
    "text": "Either in pain or thus in sympathy",
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    "text": "Helpless among the living and the dead,",
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    "text": "Like a cold water among broken reeds,",
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   {
    "text": "Myriads of broken reeds all still and stiff,",
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   {
    "text": "Like me who have no love which this wild rain",
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    "text": "Has not dissolved except the love of death,",
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   {
    "text": "If love it be towards what is perfect and",
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    "text": "Cannot, the tempest tells me, disappoint.",
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