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    "text": "With the same heart, I said, I’ll answer thee",
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   {
    "text": "As those, when thou shalt call me by my name⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Lo, the vain promise! Is the same, the same,",
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   {
    "text": "Perplexed and ruffled by life’s strategy?",
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   {
    "text": "When called before, I told how hastily",
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   {
    "text": "I dropped my flowers or brake off from a game.",
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    "text": "To run and answer with the smile that came",
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    "text": "At play last moment, and went on with me",
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   {
    "text": "Through my obedience. When I answer now,",
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   {
    "text": "I drop a grave thought⁠—break from solitude;⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Yet still my heart goes to thee⁠—ponder how⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Not as to a single good, but all my good!",
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   {
    "text": "Lay thy hand on it, best one, and allow",
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    "text": "That no child’s foot could run fast as this blood.",
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