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    "text": "Under the after-sunset sky",
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    "text": "Two pewits sport and cry,",
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    "text": "More white than is the moon on high",
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    "text": "Riding the dark surge silently;",
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    "text": "More black than earth. Their cry",
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    "text": "Is the one sound under the sky.",
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    "text": "They alone move, now low, now high,",
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    "text": "And merrily they cry",
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    "text": "To the mischievous Spring sky,",
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    "text": "Plunging earthward, tossing high,",
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    "text": "Over the ghost who wonders why",
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    "text": "So merrily they cry and fly,",
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    "text": "While the moon’s quarter silently",
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