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 "title": "The Bridge",
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    "text": "I have come a long way to-day:",
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    "text": "On a strange bridge alone,",
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    "text": "Remembering friends, old friends,",
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    "text": "I rest, without smile or moan,",
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    "text": "All are behind, the kind",
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    "text": "And the unkind too, no more",
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    "text": "To-night than a dream. The stream",
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    "text": "Runs softly yet drowns the Past,",
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   {
    "text": "The dark-lit stream has drowned the Future and the Past.",
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    "text": "No traveller has rest more blest",
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    "text": "Than this moment brief between",
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    "text": "Two lives, when the Night’s first lights",
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    "text": "And shades hide what has never been,",
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    "text": "Things goodlier, lovelier, dearer, than will be or have been.",
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