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    "text": "Some eyes condemn the earth they gaze upon:",
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    "text": "Some wait patiently till they know far more",
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    "text": "Than earth can tell them: some laugh at the whole",
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    "text": "As folly of another’s making: one",
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    "text": "I knew that laughed because he saw, from core",
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    "text": "To rind, not one thing worth the laugh his soul",
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    "text": "Had ready at waking: some eyes have begun",
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    "text": "With laughing; some stand startled at the door.",
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    "text": "Others, too, I have seen rest, question, roll,",
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    "text": "Dance, shoot. And many I have loved watching. Some",
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    "text": "I could not take my eyes from till they turned",
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    "text": "And loving died. I had not found my goal.",
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    "text": "But thinking of your eyes, dear, I become",
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    "text": "Dumb: for they flamed, and it was me they burned.",
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