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    "text": "Only the sound remains",
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    "text": "Of the old mill;",
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    "text": "Water that toils no more",
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    "text": "And, falling, mocks",
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    "text": "The music of the mill-wheel’s busy roar.",
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    "text": "Pretty to see, by day",
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    "text": "Its sound is naught",
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    "text": "Compared with thought",
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    "text": "Night makes the difference.",
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    "text": "In calm moonlight,",
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    "text": "Gloom infinite,",
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    "text": "The sound comes surging in upon the sense:",
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    "text": "Solitude, company⁠—",
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    "text": "When it is night⁠—",
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    "text": "Often the silentness",
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    "text": "Has but this one",
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    "text": "Companion;",
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    "text": "Only the idle foam",
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    "text": "Of water falling",
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    "text": "Changelessly calling,",
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    "text": "Where once men had a work-place and a home.",
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