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    "text": "The clouds that are so light,",
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    "text": "And even so now, light one!",
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    "text": "Beautiful, swift and bright one!",
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    "text": "You let fall on a heart that was dark,",
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    "text": "But clouds would have, without earth",
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    "text": "To shadow, far less worth:",
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    "text": "Away from your shadow on me",
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    "text": "Your beauty less would be,",
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    "text": "And if it still be treasured",
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