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 "title": "What Shall I Give?",
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    "text": "What shall I give my daughter the younger",
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   {
    "text": "More than will keep her from cold and hunger?",
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   {
    "text": "I shall not give her anything.",
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   {
    "text": "If she shared South Weald and Havering,",
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   {
    "text": "Their acres, the two brooks running between,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Paine’s Brook and Weald Brook,",
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   {
    "text": "With pewit, woodpecker, swan, and rook,",
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   {
    "text": "She would be no richer than the queen",
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   {
    "text": "Who once on a time sat in Havering Bower",
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   {
    "text": "Alone, with the shadows, pleasure and power.",
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   {
    "text": "She could do no more with Samarkand,",
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    "text": "Or the mountains of a mountain land",
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   {
    "text": "And its far white house above cottages",
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    "text": "Like Venus above the Pleiades.",
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    "text": "Her small hands I would not cumber",
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   {
    "text": "With so many acres and their lumber,",
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    "text": "But leave her Steep and her own world",
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    "text": "And her spectacled self with hair uncurled,",
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    "text": "Wanting a thousand little things",
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    "text": "That time without contentment brings.",
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