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    "text": "Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved;",
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    "text": "Cold, yet had heat within me that was proof",
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    "text": "Against the North wind; tired, yet so that rest",
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    "text": "Had seemed the sweetest thing under a roof.",
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    "text": "Then at the inn I had food, fire, and rest,",
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    "text": "Knowing how hungry, cold, and tired was I.",
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    "text": "All of the night was quite barred out except",
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    "text": "An owl’s cry, a most melancholy cry",
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    "text": "Shaken out long and clear upon the hill,",
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    "text": "No merry note, nor cause of merriment,",
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    "text": "But one telling me plain what I escaped",
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    "text": "And others could not, that night, as in I went.",
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    "text": "And salted was my food, and my repose,",
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    "text": "Salted and sobered, too, by the bird’s voice",
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    "text": "Speaking for all who lay under the stars,",
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