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    "text": "The melancholy gift Aurora gained",
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    "text": "From Jove, that her sad lover should not see",
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   {
    "text": "The face of death, no goddess asked for thee,",
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   {
    "text": "My Keats! But when the scarlet blood-drop stained",
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   {
    "text": "Thy pillow, thou didst read the fate ordained⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Brief life, wild love, a flight of poesy!",
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    "text": "And then⁠—a shadow fell on Italy:",
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    "text": "Thy star went down before its brightness waned.",
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    "text": "Yet thou hast won the gift Tithonus missed:",
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    "text": "Nor lose the blissful sight of beauty’s truth,",
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    "text": "But with the ardent lips Urania kissed",
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    "text": "To breathe thy song, and, ere thy heart grew cold,",
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    "text": "Become the Poet of Immortal Youth.",
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