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  "note": "Taken from the 1893 collected Poetical Works, which is the printing this text is and not the poem's first appearance. MacDonald gathered and revised for it work published from 1855 onward, and it arranges the poems by its own editorial grouping rather than by the volumes they came from, so which earlier book or magazine printed this poem first has not been established here.",
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    "text": "“Thou wanderest in the land of dreams,",
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    "text": "O man of many songs!",
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    "text": "To thee what is, but looks and seems;",
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    "text": "No realm to thee belongs!”",
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    "text": "“Seest thou those mountains, faint and far,",
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    "text": "O spirit caged and tame?”",
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    "text": "“Blue clouds like distant hills they are,",
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    "text": "“Nay, nay; I know each mountain well,",
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    "text": "In that cloudland, in one high dell,",
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    "text": "Nesteth my little home.”",
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