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    "text": "The new moon hangs like an ivory bugle",
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   {
    "text": "In the naked frosty blue;",
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    "text": "And the ghylls of the forest, already blackened",
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    "text": "By Winter, are blackened anew.",
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    "text": "The brooks that cut up and increase the forest,",
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    "text": "The sun, are roaring with black hollow voices",
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    "text": "But still the caravan-hut by the hollies",
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    "text": "Like a kingfisher gleams between:",
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    "text": "Round the mossed old hearths of the charcoal-burners",
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    "text": "First primroses ask to be seen.",
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    "text": "The charcoal-burners are black, but their linen",
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    "text": "Blows white on the line;",
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    "text": "And white the letter the girl is reading",
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    "text": "Under that crescent fine;",
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    "text": "And her brother who hides apart in a thicket,",
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    "text": "On a whistle an olden nursery melody,",
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    "text": "Says far more than I am saying.",
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