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    "text": "“Rejoice,” said the Sun; “I will make thee gay",
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   {
    "text": "With glory and gladness and holiday;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I am dumb, O man, and I need thy voice!”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But man would not rejoice.",
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   {
    "text": "“Rejoice in thyself,” said he, “O Sun,",
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   {
    "text": "For thy daily course is a lordly one;",
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    "text": "In thy lofty place rejoice if thou can:",
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   {
    "text": "For me, I am only a man.”",
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   {
    "text": "“Rejoice,” said the Wind; “I am free and strong,",
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   {
    "text": "And will wake in thy heart an ancient song;",
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   {
    "text": "Hear the roaring woods, my organ noise!”",
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   {
    "text": "But man would not rejoice.",
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   {
    "text": "“Rejoice, O Wind, in thy strength,” said he,",
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   {
    "text": "“For thou fulfillest thy destiny;",
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   {
    "text": "Shake the forest, the faint flowers fan;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For me, I am only a man.”",
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    "text": "“Rejoice,” said the Night, “with moon and star,",
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   {
    "text": "For the Sun and the Wind are gone afar;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I am here with rest and dreaming choice!”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But man would not rejoice;",
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  [
   {
    "text": "For he said⁠—“What is rest to me, I pray,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose labour leads to no gladsome day?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He only can dream who has hope behind:",
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   {
    "text": "Alas for me and my kind!”",
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    "text": "Then a voice that came not from moon or star,",
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   {
    "text": "From the sun, or the wind that roved afar,",
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   {
    "text": "Said, “Man, I am with thee⁠—hear my voice!”",
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   {
    "text": "And man said, “I rejoice.”",
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