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    "text": "A glory on the chamber wall!",
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    "text": "A glory in the brain!",
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    "text": "Triumphant floods of glory fall",
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    "text": "On heath, and wold, and plain.",
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    "text": "Earth lieth still in hopeless bliss;",
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    "text": "She has, and seeks no more;",
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    "text": "Forgets that days come after this,",
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    "text": "Forgets the days before.",
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    "text": "Each ripple waves a flickering fire",
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    "text": "Of gladness, as it runs;",
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    "text": "They laugh and flash, and leap and spire,",
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    "text": "And toss ten thousand suns.",
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    "text": "But hark! low, in the world within,",
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    "text": "One sad aeolian tone:",
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    "text": "“Ah! shall we ever, ever win",
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    "text": "A summer of our own?”",
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    "text": "A morn of winds and swaying trees⁠—",
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    "text": "Earth’s jubilance rushing out!",
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    "text": "The birds are fighting with the breeze;",
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    "text": "The waters heave about.",
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    "text": "White clouds are swept across the sky,",
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    "text": "Their shadows o’er the graves;",
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    "text": "Purpling the green, they float and fly",
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    "text": "Athwart the sunny waves.",
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    "text": "The long grass⁠—an earth-rooted sea⁠—",
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    "text": "Mimics the watery strife.",
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   {
    "text": "To boat or horse? Wild motion we",
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    "text": "Shall find harmonious life.",
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    "text": "But whither? Roll and sweep and bend",
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    "text": "Suffice for Nature’s part;",
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    "text": "But motion to an endless end",
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    "text": "Is needful for our heart.",
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    "text": "The morn awakes like brooding dove,",
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    "text": "With outspread wings of gray;",
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    "text": "Her feathery clouds close in above,",
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    "text": "And roof a sober day.",
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    "text": "No motion in the deeps of air!",
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    "text": "No trembling in the leaves!",
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    "text": "A still contentment everywhere,",
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    "text": "That neither laughs nor grieves!",
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    "text": "A film of sheeted silver gray",
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    "text": "Shuts in the ocean’s hue;",
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    "text": "White-winged feluccas cleave their way",
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    "text": "In paths of gorgeous blue.",
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    "text": "Dream on, dream on, O dreamy day,",
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    "text": "Thy very clouds are dreams!",
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    "text": "Yon child is dreaming far away⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "He is not where he seems.",
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    "text": "The lark is up, his faith is strong,",
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    "text": "He mounts the morning air;",
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    "text": "Lone voice of all the creature throng,",
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    "text": "He sings the morning prayer.",
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    "text": "Slow clouds from north and south appear,",
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    "text": "Black-based, with shining slope;",
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    "text": "In sullen forms their might they rear,",
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    "text": "And climb the vaulted cope.",
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    "text": "A lightning flash, a thunder boom!⁠—",
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    "text": "Nor sun nor clouds are there;",
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    "text": "A single, all-pervading gloom",
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    "text": "Hangs in the heavy air.",
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    "text": "A weeping, wasting afternoon",
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    "text": "Weighs down the aspiring corn;",
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    "text": "Amber and red, the sunset soon",
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    "text": "Leads back to golden morn.",
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    "text": "The dreary wind of night is out,",
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    "text": "Homeless and wandering slow;",
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    "text": "O’er pale seas moaning like a doubt,",
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    "text": "It breathes, but will not blow.",
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    "text": "It sighs from out the helpless past,",
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   {
    "text": "Where doleful things abide;",
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    "text": "Gray ghosts of dead thought sail aghast",
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    "text": "Across its ebbing tide.",
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    "text": "O’er marshy pools it faints and flows,",
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    "text": "All deaf and dumb and blind;",
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    "text": "O’er moor and mountain aimless goes⁠—",
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    "text": "The listless woesome wind!",
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    "text": "Nay, nay!⁠—breathe on, sweet wind of night!",
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    "text": "The sigh is all in me;",
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    "text": "Flow, fan, and blow, with gentle might,",
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    "text": "Until I wake and see.",
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    "text": "The west is broken into bars",
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   {
    "text": "Of orange, gold, and gray;",
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   {
    "text": "Gone is the sun, fast come the stars,",
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    "text": "And night infolds the day.",
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    "text": "My boat glides with the gliding stream,",
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   {
    "text": "Following adown its breast",
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    "text": "One flowing mirrored amber gleam,",
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    "text": "The death-smile of the west.",
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    "text": "The river moves; the sky is still,",
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   {
    "text": "No ceaseless quest it knows:",
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   {
    "text": "Thy bosom swells, thy fair eyes fill",
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   {
    "text": "At sight of its repose.",
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    "text": "The ripples run; all patient sit",
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   {
    "text": "The stars above the night.",
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   {
    "text": "In shade and gleam the waters flit:",
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   {
    "text": "The heavens are changeless bright!",
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    "text": "Alone I lie, buried amid",
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    "text": "The long luxurious grass;",
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   {
    "text": "The bats flit round me, born and hid",
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   {
    "text": "In twilight’s wavering mass.",
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    "text": "The fir-top floats, an airy isle,",
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   {
    "text": "High o’er the mossy ground;",
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   {
    "text": "Harmonious silence breathes the while",
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   {
    "text": "In scent instead of sound.",
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    "text": "The flaming rose glooms swarthy red;",
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   {
    "text": "The borage gleams more blue;",
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   {
    "text": "Dim-starred with white, a flowery bed",
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   {
    "text": "Glimmers the rich dusk through.",
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    "text": "Hid in the summer grass I lie,",
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    "text": "Lost in the great blue cave;",
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    "text": "My body gazes at the sky,",
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    "text": "And measures out its grave.",
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   {
    "text": "What art thou, gathering dusky cool,",
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   {
    "text": "In slow gradation fine?",
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   {
    "text": "Death’s lovely shadow, flickering full",
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   {
    "text": "Of eyes about to shine.",
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    "text": "When weary Day goes down below,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou leanest o’er his grave,",
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   {
    "text": "Revolving all the vanished show",
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   {
    "text": "The gracious splendour gave.",
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   {
    "text": "Or art thou not she rather⁠—say⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Dark-browed, with luminous eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "Of whom is born the mighty Day,",
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   {
    "text": "That fights and saves and dies?",
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   {
    "text": "For action sleeps with sleeping light;",
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   {
    "text": "Calm thought awakes with thee:",
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   {
    "text": "The soul is then a summer night,",
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    "text": "With stars that shine and see.",
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    "text": "We bore him through the golden land,",
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    "text": "One early harvest morn;",
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    "text": "The corn stood ripe on either hand⁠—",
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    "text": "He knew all about the corn.",
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    "text": "How shall the harvest gathered be",
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    "text": "Without him standing by?",
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    "text": "Without him walking on the lea,",
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   {
    "text": "The sky is scarce a sky.",
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    "text": "The year’s glad work is almost done;",
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    "text": "The land is rich in fruit;",
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   {
    "text": "Yellow it floats in air and sun⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Earth holds it by the root.",
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    "text": "Why should earth hold it for a day",
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   {
    "text": "When harvest-time is come?",
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    "text": "Death is triumphant o’er decay,",
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    "text": "And leads the ripened home.",
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    "text": "And though the sun be not so warm,",
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    "text": "His shining is not lost;",
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    "text": "Both corn and hope, of heart and farm,",
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    "text": "Lie hid from coming frost.",
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    "text": "The sombre woods are richly sad,",
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    "text": "Their leaves are red and gold:",
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   {
    "text": "Are thoughts in solemn splendour clad",
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    "text": "Signs that we men grow old?",
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    "text": "Strange odours haunt the doubtful brain",
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    "text": "From fields and days gone by;",
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    "text": "And mournful memories again",
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    "text": "Are born, are loved, and die.",
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    "text": "The mornings clear, the evenings cool",
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    "text": "Foretell no wintry wars;",
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    "text": "The day of dying leaves is full,",
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    "text": "The night of glowing stars.",
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    "text": "’Tis late before the sun will rise,",
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    "text": "And early he will go;",
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    "text": "Gray fringes hang from the gray skies,",
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    "text": "And wet the ground below.",
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    "text": "Red fruit has followed golden corn;",
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    "text": "The leaves are few and sere;",
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    "text": "My thoughts are old as soon as born,",
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    "text": "And chill with coming fear.",
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    "text": "The winds lie sick; no softest breath",
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    "text": "Floats through the branches bare;",
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    "text": "A silence as of coming death",
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    "text": "Is growing in the air.",
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    "text": "But what must fade can bear to fade⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Was born to meet the ill:",
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   {
    "text": "Creep on, old Winter, deathly shade!",
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   {
    "text": "We sorrow, and are still.",
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    "text": "There is no longer any heaven",
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    "text": "To glorify our clouds;",
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    "text": "The rising vapours downward driven",
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    "text": "Come home in palls and shrouds.",
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    "text": "The sun himself is ill bested",
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    "text": "A heavenly sign to show;",
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    "text": "His radiance, dimmed to glowing red,",
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    "text": "Can hardly further go.",
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    "text": "An earthy damp, a churchyard gloom,",
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   {
    "text": "Pervade the moveless air;",
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   {
    "text": "The year is sinking to its tomb,",
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   {
    "text": "And death is everywhere.",
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    "text": "But while sad thoughts together creep,",
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    "text": "Like bees too cold to sting,",
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    "text": "God’s children, in their beds asleep,",
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    "text": "Are dreaming of the spring.",
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    "text": "O night, send up the harvest moon",
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    "text": "To walk about the fields,",
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    "text": "And make of midnight magic noon",
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    "text": "On lonely tarns and wealds.",
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    "text": "In golden ranks, with golden crowns,",
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    "text": "All in the yellow land,",
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    "text": "Old solemn kings in rustling gowns,",
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    "text": "The shocks moon-charmed stand.",
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    "text": "Sky-mirror she, afloat in space,",
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    "text": "Beholds our coming morn:",
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   {
    "text": "Her heavenly joy hath such a grace,",
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    "text": "It ripens earthly corn;",
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    "text": "Like some lone saint with upward eyes,",
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    "text": "Lost in the deeps of prayer:",
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    "text": "The people still their prayers and sighs,",
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    "text": "And gazing ripen there.",
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    "text": "So, like the corn moon-ripened last,",
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    "text": "Would I, weary and gray,",
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    "text": "On golden memories ripen fast,",
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    "text": "And ripening pass away.",
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    "text": "In an old night so let me die;",
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   {
    "text": "A slow wind out of doors;",
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    "text": "A waning moon low in the sky;",
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    "text": "A vapour on the moors;",
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    "text": "A fire just dying in the gloom;",
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    "text": "Earth haunted all with dreams;",
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    "text": "A sound of waters in the room;",
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    "text": "A mirror’s moony gleams;",
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    "text": "And near me, in the sinking night,",
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    "text": "More thoughts than move in me⁠—",
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    "text": "Forgiving wrong, and loving right,",
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    "text": "And waiting till I see.",
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    "text": "Across the stubble glooms the wind;",
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    "text": "High sails the lated crow;",
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    "text": "The west with pallid green is lined;",
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    "text": "Fog tracks the river’s flow.",
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   {
    "text": "My heart is cold and sad; I moan,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet care not for my grief;",
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   {
    "text": "The summer fervours all are gone;",
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   {
    "text": "The roses are but leaf.",
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   {
    "text": "Old age is coming, frosty, hoar;",
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   {
    "text": "The snows of time will fall;",
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   {
    "text": "My jubilance, dream-like, no more",
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   {
    "text": "Returns for any call!",
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   {
    "text": "O lapsing heart! thy feeble strain",
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   {
    "text": "Sends up the blood so spare,",
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   {
    "text": "That my poor withering autumn brain",
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    "text": "Sees autumn everywhere!",
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   {
    "text": "Lord of my life! if I am blind,",
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   {
    "text": "I reck not⁠—thou canst see;",
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   {
    "text": "I well may wait my summer mind,",
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   {
    "text": "When I am sure of thee!",
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   {
    "text": "I made no brave bright suns arise,",
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   {
    "text": "Veiled up no sweet gray eves;",
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   {
    "text": "I hung no rose-lamps, lit no eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "Sent out no windy leaves!",
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   {
    "text": "I said not “I will cast a charm",
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   {
    "text": "These gracious forms around;”",
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   {
    "text": "My heart with unwilled love grew warm;",
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   {
    "text": "I took but what I found!",
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    "text": "When cold winds range my winter-night,",
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   {
    "text": "Be thou my summer-door;",
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   {
    "text": "Keep for me all my young delight,",
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   {
    "text": "Till I am old no more.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "The sky has turned its heart away,",
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   {
    "text": "The earth its sorrow found;",
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   {
    "text": "The daisies turn from childhood’s play,",
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   {
    "text": "And creep into the ground.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "The earth is black and cold and hard;",
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   {
    "text": "Thin films of dry white ice,",
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   {
    "text": "Across the rugged wheel-tracks barred,",
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   {
    "text": "The children’s feet entice.",
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   {
    "text": "Dark flows the stream, as if it mourned",
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   {
    "text": "The winter in the land;",
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   {
    "text": "With idle icicles adorned,",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "That mill-wheel soon will stand.",
    "indent": 1
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   {
    "text": "But, friends, to say ’tis cold, and part,",
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   {
    "text": "Is to let in the cold;",
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   {
    "text": "We’ll make a summer of the heart,",
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    "text": "And laugh at winter old.",
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    "text": "With vague dead gleam the morning white",
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   {
    "text": "Comes through the window-panes;",
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   {
    "text": "The clouds have fallen all the night,",
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    "text": "Without the noise of rains.",
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  [
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    "text": "As of departing, unseen ghost,",
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   {
    "text": "Footprints go from the door;",
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   {
    "text": "The man himself must long be lost",
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   {
    "text": "Who left those footprints hoar!",
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    "text": "Yet follow thou; tread down the snow;",
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   {
    "text": "Leave all the road behind;",
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   {
    "text": "Heed not the winds that steely blow,",
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   {
    "text": "Heed not the sky unkind;",
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    "text": "For though the glittering air grow dark,",
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   {
    "text": "The snow will shine till morn;",
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   {
    "text": "And long ere then one dear home-spark",
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   {
    "text": "Will winter laugh to scorn.",
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   {
    "text": "Oh wildly wild the roaring blast",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Torments the fallen snow!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The wintry storms are up at last,",
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   {
    "text": "And care not how they go!",
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  [
   {
    "text": "In foam-like wreaths the water hoar,",
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   {
    "text": "Rapt whistling in the air,",
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   {
    "text": "Gleams through the dismal twilight frore;",
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   {
    "text": "A region in despair,",
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  [
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    "text": "A spectral ocean lies outside,",
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   {
    "text": "Torn by a tempest dark;",
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   {
    "text": "Its ghostly billows, dim descried,",
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   {
    "text": "Leap on my stranded bark.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Death-sheeted figures, long and white,",
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   {
    "text": "Rave driving through the spray;",
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   {
    "text": "Or, bosomed in the ghastly night,",
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   {
    "text": "Shriek doom-cries far away.",
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    "text": "A morning clear, with frosty light",
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   {
    "text": "From sunbeams late and low;",
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   {
    "text": "They shine upon the snow so white,",
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   {
    "text": "And shine back from the snow.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Down tusks of ice one drop will go,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor fall: at sunny noon",
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   {
    "text": "’Twill hang a diamond⁠—fade, and grow",
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   {
    "text": "An opal for the moon.",
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   {
    "text": "And when the bright sad sun is low",
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   {
    "text": "Behind the mountain-dome,",
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   {
    "text": "A twilight wind will come and blow",
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    "text": "Around the children’s home,",
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    "text": "And puff and waft the powdery snow,",
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   {
    "text": "As feet unseen did pass;",
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   {
    "text": "While, waiting in its bed below,",
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   {
    "text": "Green lies the summer grass.",
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   {
    "text": "Back shining from the pane, the fire",
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   {
    "text": "Seems outside in the snow:",
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   {
    "text": "So love set free from love’s desire",
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   {
    "text": "Lights grief of long ago.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "The dark is thinned with snow-sheen fine,",
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   {
    "text": "The earth bedecked with moon;",
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   {
    "text": "Out on the worlds we surely shine",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "More radiant than in June!",
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  [
   {
    "text": "In the white garden lies a heap",
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   {
    "text": "As brown as deep-dug mould:",
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   {
    "text": "A hundred partridges that keep",
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   {
    "text": "Each other from the cold.",
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    "text": "My father gives them sheaves of corn,",
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   {
    "text": "For shelter both and food:",
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   {
    "text": "High hope in me was early born,",
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   {
    "text": "My father was so good.",
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   {
    "text": "The frost weaves ferns and sultry palms",
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   {
    "text": "Across my clouded pane;",
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   {
    "text": "Weaves melodies of ancient psalms",
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   {
    "text": "All through my passive brain.",
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    "text": "Quiet ecstasy fills heart and head:",
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   {
    "text": "My father is in the room;",
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   {
    "text": "The very curtains of my bed",
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   {
    "text": "Are from Love’s sheltering loom!",
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   {
    "text": "The lovely vision melts away;",
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   {
    "text": "I am a child no more;",
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   {
    "text": "Work rises from the floor of play;",
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   {
    "text": "Duty is at the door.",
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   {
    "text": "But if I face with courage stout",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The labour and the din,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou, Lord, wilt let my mind go out",
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   {
    "text": "My heart with thee stay in.",
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    "text": "Up to my ear my soul doth run⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Her other door is dark;",
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   {
    "text": "There she can see without the sun,",
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   {
    "text": "And there she sits to mark.",
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   {
    "text": "I hear the dull unheeding wind",
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   {
    "text": "Mumble o’er heath and wold;",
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   {
    "text": "My fancy leaves my brain behind,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And floats into the cold.",
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  [
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    "text": "Like a forgotten face that lies",
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   {
    "text": "One of the speechless crowd,",
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   {
    "text": "The earth lies spent, with frozen eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "White-folded in her shroud.",
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  [
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    "text": "O’er leafless woods and cornless farms,",
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   {
    "text": "Dead rivers, fireless thorps,",
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   {
    "text": "I brood, the heart still throbbing warm",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In Nature’s wintered corpse.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "To all the world mine eyes are blind:",
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   {
    "text": "Their drop serene is⁠—night,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With stores of snow piled up the wind",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An awful airy height.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And yet ’tis but a mote in the eye:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The simple faithful stars",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Beyond are shining, careless high,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Nor heed our storms and jars.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And when o’er storm and jar I climb⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Beyond life’s atmosphere,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I shall behold the lord of time",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And space⁠—of world and year.",
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   {
    "text": "Oh vain, far quest!⁠—not thus my heart",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall ever find its goal!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "I turn me home⁠—and there thou art,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My Father, in my soul!",
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    "text": "A gentle wind, of western birth",
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   {
    "text": "On some far summer sea,",
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   {
    "text": "Wakes daisies in the wintry earth,",
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   {
    "text": "Wakes hopes in wintry me.",
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    "text": "The sun is low; the paths are wet,",
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   {
    "text": "And dance with frolic hail;",
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   {
    "text": "The trees⁠—their spring-time is not yet⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Swing sighing in the gale.",
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    "text": "Young gleams of sunshine peep and play;",
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   {
    "text": "Clouds shoulder in between;",
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   {
    "text": "I scarce believe one coming day",
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   {
    "text": "The earth will all be green.",
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    "text": "The north wind blows, and blasts, and raves,",
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   {
    "text": "And flaps his snowy wing:",
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    "text": "Back! toss thy bergs on arctic waves;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou canst not bar our spring.",
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    "text": "Up comes the primrose, wondering;",
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   {
    "text": "The snowdrop droopeth by;",
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   {
    "text": "The holy spirit of the spring",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is working silently.",
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    "text": "Soft-breathing breezes woo and wile",
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   {
    "text": "The later children out;",
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   {
    "text": "O’er woods and farms a sunny smile",
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   {
    "text": "Is flickering about.",
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    "text": "The earth was cold, hard-hearted, dull;",
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   {
    "text": "To death almost she slept:",
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   {
    "text": "Over her, heaven grew beautiful,",
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    "text": "And forth her beauty crept.",
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  [
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    "text": "Showers yet must fall, and waters grow",
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   {
    "text": "Dark-wan with furrowing blast;",
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   {
    "text": "But suns will shine, and soft winds blow,",
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    "text": "Till the year flowers at last.",
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    "text": "The sky is smiling over me,",
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   {
    "text": "Hath smiled away the frost;",
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   {
    "text": "White daisies star the sky-like lea,",
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   {
    "text": "With buds the wood’s embossed.",
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    "text": "Troops of wild flowers gaze at the sky",
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   {
    "text": "Up through the latticed boughs;",
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   {
    "text": "Till comes the green cloud by and by,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It is not time to house.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Yours is the day, sweet bird⁠—sing on;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The winter is forgot;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like an ill dream ’tis over and gone:",
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   {
    "text": "Pain that is past, is not.",
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    "text": "Joy that was past is yet the same:",
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   {
    "text": "If care the summer brings,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Twill only be another name",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For love that broods, not sings.",
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  ],
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    "text": "Blow on me, wind, from west and south;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sweet summer-spirit, blow!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Come like a kiss from dear child’s mouth,",
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   {
    "text": "Who knows not what I know.",
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    "text": "The earth’s perfection dawneth soon;",
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    "text": "Ours lingereth alway;",
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   {
    "text": "We have a morning, not a noon;",
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    "text": "Spring, but no summer gay.",
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    "text": "Rose-blotted eve, gold-branded morn",
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   {
    "text": "Crown soon the swift year’s life:",
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   {
    "text": "In us a higher hope is born,",
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    "text": "And claims a longer strife.",
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    "text": "Will heaven be an eternal spring",
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   {
    "text": "With summer at the door?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or shall we one day tell its king",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That we desire no more?",
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    "text": "The flush of green that dyed the day",
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   {
    "text": "Hath vanished in the moon;",
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   {
    "text": "Flower-scents float stronger out, and play",
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    "text": "An unborn, coming tune.",
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    "text": "One southern eve like this, the dew",
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   {
    "text": "Had cooled and left the ground;",
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   {
    "text": "The moon hung half-way from the blue,",
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    "text": "No disc, but conglobed round;",
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    "text": "Light-leaved acacias, by the door,",
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   {
    "text": "Bathed in the balmy air,",
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   {
    "text": "Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore,",
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   {
    "text": "And breathed a perfume rare;",
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    "text": "Great gold-flakes from the starry sky",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fell flashing on the deep:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "One scent of moist earth floating by,",
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   {
    "text": "Almost it made me weep.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Those gorgeous stars were not my own,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They made me alien go!",
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   {
    "text": "The mother o’er her head had thrown",
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   {
    "text": "A veil I did not know!",
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    "text": "The moon-blanched fields that seaward went,",
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   {
    "text": "The palm-flung, dusky shades,",
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    "text": "Bore flowering grasses, knotted, bent,",
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    "text": "No slender, spear-like blades.",
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  [
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    "text": "I longed to see the starry host",
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   {
    "text": "Afar in fainter blue;",
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   {
    "text": "But plenteous grass I missed the most,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With daisies glimmering through.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The common things were not the same!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I longed across the foam:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From dew-damp earth that odour came⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "I knew the world my home.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The stars are glad in gulfy space⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Friendly the dark to them!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From day’s deep mine, their hiding-place,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Night wooeth every gem.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "A thing for faith ’mid labour’s jar,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When up the day is furled,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shines in the sky a light afar,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mayhap a home-filled world.",
    "indent": 1
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Sometimes upon the inner sky",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We catch a doubtful shine:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A mote or star? A flash in the eye",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Or jewel of God’s mine?",
    "indent": 1
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "A star to us, all glimmer and glance,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "May teem with seraphim:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A fancy to our ignorance",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "May be a truth to Him.",
    "indent": 1
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The night is damp and warm and still,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And soft with summer dreams;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The buds are bursting at their will,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And shy the half moon gleams.",
    "indent": 1
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "My soul is cool, as bathed within",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "By dews that silent weep⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like child that has confessed his sin,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And now will go to sleep.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "My body ages, form and hue;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But when the spring winds blow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My spirit stirs and buds anew,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Younger than long ago.",
    "indent": 1
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Lord, make me more a child, and more,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Till Time his own end bring,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And out of every winter sore",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I pass into thy spring.",
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   }
  ]
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}