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   {
    "text": "Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that wild night",
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   {
    "text": "When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She knew her Love and saw her Lord depart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then breathed her wonder and her woe forlorn",
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   {
    "text": "Into a single cry, and thou wast born!",
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   {
    "text": "Thou flower of rapture and thou fruit of grief;",
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   {
    "text": "Invisible enchantress of the heart;",
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   {
    "text": "Mistress of charms that bring relief",
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   {
    "text": "To sorrow, and to joy impart",
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   {
    "text": "A heavenly tone that keeps it undefined⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Thou art the child",
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   {
    "text": "Of Amor, and by right divine",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A throne of love is thine,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou flower-folded, golden-girdled, star-crowned Queen,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose bridal beauty mortal eyes have never seen!",
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   {
    "text": "Thou art the Angel of the pool that sleeps,",
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   {
    "text": "While peace and joy lie hidden in its deeps,",
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   {
    "text": "Waiting thy touch to make the waters roll",
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   {
    "text": "In healing murmurs round the weary soul.",
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   {
    "text": "Ah, when wilt thou draw near,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou messenger of mercy robed in song?",
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   {
    "text": "My lonely heart has listened for thee long;",
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   {
    "text": "And now I seem to hear",
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   {
    "text": "Across the crowded market-place of life,",
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    "text": "Thy measured foot-fall, ringing light and clear",
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   {
    "text": "Above unmeaning noises and unruly strife.",
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   {
    "text": "In quiet cadence, sweet and slow,",
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   {
    "text": "Serenely pacing to and fro,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy far-off steps are magical and dear⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ah, turn this way, come close and speak to me!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From this dull bed of languor set my spirit free,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And bid me rise, and let me walk awhile with thee.",
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   {
    "text": "Where wilt thou lead me first?",
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   {
    "text": "In what still region",
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   {
    "text": "Of thy domain,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose provinces are legion,",
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   {
    "text": "Wilt thou restore me to myself again,",
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   {
    "text": "And quench my heart’s long thirst?",
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   {
    "text": "I pray thee lay thy golden girdle down,",
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   {
    "text": "And put away thy starry crown:",
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   {
    "text": "For one dear restful hour",
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   {
    "text": "Assume a state more mild.",
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   {
    "text": "Clad only in thy blossom-broidered gown",
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   {
    "text": "That breathes familiar scent of many a flower,",
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   {
    "text": "Take the low path that leads through pastures green;",
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   {
    "text": "And though thou art a Queen,",
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   {
    "text": "Be Rosamund awhile, and in thy bower,",
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   {
    "text": "By tranquil love and simple joy beguiled,",
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   {
    "text": "Sing to my soul, as mother to her child.",
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    "text": "O lead me by the hand,",
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   {
    "text": "And let my heart have rest,",
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   {
    "text": "And bring me back to childhood land,",
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   {
    "text": "To find again the long-lost band",
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   {
    "text": "Of playmates blithe and blest.",
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    "text": "Some quaint, old-fashioned air,",
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   {
    "text": "That all the children knew,",
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   {
    "text": "Shall run before us everywhere,",
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   {
    "text": "Like a little maid with flying hair,",
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   {
    "text": "To guide the merry crew.",
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    "text": "Along the garden ways",
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   {
    "text": "We chase the light-foot tune,",
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   {
    "text": "And in and out the flowery maze,",
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   {
    "text": "With eager haste and fond delays,",
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   {
    "text": "In pleasant paths of June.",
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   {
    "text": "For us the fields are new,",
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   {
    "text": "For us the woods are rife",
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   {
    "text": "With fairy secrets, deep and true,",
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   {
    "text": "And heaven is but a tent of blue",
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   {
    "text": "Above the game of life.",
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   {
    "text": "The world is far away:",
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   {
    "text": "The fever and the fret,",
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   {
    "text": "And all that makes the heart grow gray,",
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   {
    "text": "Is out of sight and far away,",
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   {
    "text": "Dear Music, while I hear thee play",
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   {
    "text": "That olden, golden roundelay,",
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   {
    "text": "“Remember and forget!”",
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   {
    "text": "Forget, forget!",
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   {
    "text": "The tide of life is turning;",
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   {
    "text": "The waves of light ebb slowly down the west:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Along the edge of dark some stars are burning",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To guide thy spirit safely to an isle of rest.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A little rocking on the tranquil deep",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of song, to soothe thy yearning,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A little slumber and a little sleep,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And so, forget, forget!",
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   {
    "text": "Forget, forget⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The day was long in pleasure;",
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   {
    "text": "Its echoes die away across the hill;",
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   {
    "text": "Now let thy heart beat time to their slow measure,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That swells, and sinks, and faints, and falls, till all is still.",
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   {
    "text": "Then, like a weary child that loves to keep",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Locked in its arms some treasure,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy soul in calm content shall fall asleep,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And so forget, forget.",
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   {
    "text": "Forget, forget⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "And if thou hast been weeping,",
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   {
    "text": "Let go the thoughts that bind thee to thy grief:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lie still, and watch the singing angels, reaping",
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   {
    "text": "The golden harvest of thy sorrow, sheaf by sheaf;",
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   {
    "text": "Or count thy joys like flocks of snow-white sheep",
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   {
    "text": "That one by one come creeping",
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   {
    "text": "Into the quiet fold, until thou sleep,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And so forget, forget!",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Forget, forget⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Thou art a child and knowest",
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   {
    "text": "So little of thy life! But music tells",
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   {
    "text": "The secret of the world through which thou goest",
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   {
    "text": "To work with morning song, to rest with evening bells:",
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   {
    "text": "Life is in tune with harmony so deep",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That when the notes are lowest",
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   {
    "text": "Thou still canst lay thee down in peace and sleep,",
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   {
    "text": "For God will not forget.",
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   {
    "text": "Out of the garden of playtime, out of the bower of rest,",
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   {
    "text": "Fain would I follow at daytime, music that calls to a quest.",
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   {
    "text": "Hark, how the galloping measure",
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   {
    "text": "Quickens the pulses of pleasure;",
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   {
    "text": "Gaily saluting the morn",
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   {
    "text": "With the long, clear note of the hunting-horn,",
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   {
    "text": "Echoing up from the valley,",
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   {
    "text": "Over the mountain side⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Rally, you hunters, rally,",
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   {
    "text": "Rally, and ride!",
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    "text": "Drink of the magical potion music has mixed with her wine,",
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   {
    "text": "Full of the madness of motion, joyful, exultant, divine!",
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   {
    "text": "Leave all your troubles behind you,",
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   {
    "text": "Ride where they never can find you,",
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   {
    "text": "Into the gladness of morn,",
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   {
    "text": "With the long, clear note of the hunting-horn,",
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   {
    "text": "Swiftly o’er hillock and hollow,",
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   {
    "text": "Sweeping along with the wind⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Follow, you hunters, follow,",
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   {
    "text": "Follow and find!",
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   {
    "text": "What will you reach with your riding? What is the charm of the chase?",
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   {
    "text": "Just the delight and the striding swing of the jubilant pace.",
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   {
    "text": "Danger is sweet when you front her⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In at the death, every hunter!",
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   {
    "text": "Now on the breeze the mort is borne",
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   {
    "text": "In the long, clear note of the hunting-horn,",
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   {
    "text": "Winding merrily, over and over⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Come, come, come!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Home again, Ranger! home again, Rover!",
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   {
    "text": "Turn again, home!",
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    "text": "Now let the sleep-tune blend with the play-tune,",
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   {
    "text": "Weaving the mystical spell of the dance;",
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   {
    "text": "Lighten the deep tune, soften the gay tune,",
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   {
    "text": "Mingle a tempo that turns in a trance.",
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    "text": "Half of it sighing, half of it smiling,",
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   {
    "text": "Smoothly it swings, with a triplicate beat;",
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   {
    "text": "Calling, replying, yearning, beguiling,",
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   {
    "text": "Wooing the heart and bewitching the feet.",
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   {
    "text": "Every drop of blood",
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   {
    "text": "Rises with the flood,",
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   {
    "text": "Rocking on the waves of the strain;",
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   {
    "text": "Youth and beauty glide",
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   {
    "text": "Turning with the tide⁠—",
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    "text": "Music making one out of twain,",
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   {
    "text": "Bearing them away, and away, and away,",
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   {
    "text": "Like a tone and its terce⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Till the chord dissolves, and the dancers stay,",
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    "text": "And reverse.",
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    "text": "Violins leading, take up the measure,",
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    "text": "Turn with the tune again⁠—clarinets clear",
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   {
    "text": "Answer their pleading⁠—harps full of pleasure",
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   {
    "text": "Sprinkle their silver like light on the mere.",
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   {
    "text": "Semiquaver notes,",
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   {
    "text": "Merry little motes,",
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   {
    "text": "Tangled in the haze",
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   {
    "text": "Of the lamp’s golden rays,",
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   {
    "text": "Quiver everywhere",
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   {
    "text": "In the air,",
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   {
    "text": "Like a spray⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Till the fuller stream of the might of the tune,",
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   {
    "text": "Gliding like a dream in the light of the moon,",
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   {
    "text": "Bears them all away, and away, and away,",
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   {
    "text": "Floating in the trance of the dance.",
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    "text": "Then begins a measure stately,",
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    "text": "Languid, slow, serene;",
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   {
    "text": "All the dancers move sedately,",
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   {
    "text": "Stepping leisurely and straitly,",
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   {
    "text": "With a courtly mien;",
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   {
    "text": "Crossing hands and changing places,",
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    "text": "Bowing low between,",
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   {
    "text": "While the minuet inlaces",
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   {
    "text": "Waving arms and woven paces⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Glittering damaskeen.",
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   {
    "text": "Where is she whose form is folden",
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   {
    "text": "In its royal sheen?",
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   {
    "text": "From our longing eyes withholden",
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   {
    "text": "By her mystic girdle golden,",
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   {
    "text": "Beauty sought but never seen,",
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   {
    "text": "Music walks the maze, a queen.",
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   {
    "text": "Break off! Dance no more!",
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   {
    "text": "Danger is at the door.",
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   {
    "text": "Music is in arms.",
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   {
    "text": "To signal war’s alarms.",
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   {
    "text": "Hark, a sudden trumpet calling",
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   {
    "text": "Over the hill!",
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   {
    "text": "Why are you calling, trumpet, calling?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What is your will?",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Men, men, men!",
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   {
    "text": "Men who are ready to fight",
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   {
    "text": "For their country’s life, and the right",
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   {
    "text": "Of a liberty-loving land to be",
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   {
    "text": "Free, free, free!",
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   {
    "text": "Free from a tyrant’s chain,",
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   {
    "text": "Free from dishonor’s stain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Free to guard and maintain",
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   {
    "text": "All that her fathers fought for,",
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   {
    "text": "All that her sons have wrought for,",
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   {
    "text": "Resolute, brave, and free!",
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   {
    "text": "Call again, trumpet, call again,",
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   {
    "text": "Call up the men!",
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   {
    "text": "Do you hear the storm of cheers",
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   {
    "text": "Mingled with the women’s tears",
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   {
    "text": "And the tramp, tramp, tramp of marching feet?",
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   {
    "text": "Do you hear the throbbing drum",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As the hosts of battle come",
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   {
    "text": "Keeping time, time, time to its beat?",
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   {
    "text": "O Music give a song",
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   {
    "text": "To make their spirit strong",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For the fury of the tempest they must meet.",
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   {
    "text": "The hoarse roar",
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   {
    "text": "Of the monster guns;",
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   {
    "text": "And the sharp bark",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of the lesser guns;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The whine of the shells,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The rifles’ clatter",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where the bullets patter,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The rattle, rattle, rattle",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Of the mitrailleuse in battle,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "And the yells",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Of the men who charge through hells",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Where the poison gas descends,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "And the bursting shrapnel rends",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Limb from limb",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "In the dim",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Chaos and clamor of the strife",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Where no man thinks of his life",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "But only of fighting through,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Blindly fighting through, through!",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "’Tis done",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "At last!",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "The victory won,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "The dissonance of warfare past!",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O Music mourn the dead",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Whose loyal blood was shed,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "And sound the taps for every hero slain;",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Then lead into the song",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "That made their spirit strong,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "And tell the world they did not die in vain.",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Thank God we can see, in the glory of morn,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The invincible flag that our fathers defended;",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "And our hearts can repeat what the heroes have sworn,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "That war shall not end till the war-lust is ended.",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Then the bloodthirsty sword shall no longer be lord",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Of the nations oppressed by the conqueror’s horde,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "But the banners of Liberty proudly shall wave",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "O’er the world of the free and the lands of the brave.",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Music, they do thee wrong who say thine art",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Is only to enchant the sense.",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "For every timid motion of the heart,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And every passion too intense",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "To bear the chain of the imperfect word,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And every tremulous longing, stirred",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "By spirit winds that come we know not whence",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And go we know not where,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "And every inarticulate prayer",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Beating about the depths of pain or bliss,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Like some bewildered bird",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "That seeks its nest but knows not where it is,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And every dream that haunts, with dim delight,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The drowsy hour between the day and night,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The wakeful hour between the night and day⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Imprisoned, waits for thee,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Impatient, yearns for thee,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "The queen who comes to set the captive free!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Thou lendest wings to grief to fly away,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And wings to joy to reach a heavenly height;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And every dumb desire that storms within the breast",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Thou leadest forth to sob or sing itself to rest.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "All these are thine, and therefore love is thine.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For love is joy and grief,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "And trembling doubt, and certain-sure belief,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And fear, and hope, and longing unexpressed,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In pain most human, and in rapture brief",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Almost divine.",
    "indent": 5
   },
   {
    "text": "Love would possess, yet deepens when denied;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And love would give, yet hungers to receive;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Love like a prince his triumph would achieve;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And like a miser in the dark his joys would hide.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Love is most bold,",
    "indent": 5
   },
   {
    "text": "He leads his dreams like armèd men in line;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Yet when the siege is set, and he must speak,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Calling the fortress to resign",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Its treasure, valiant love grows weak,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And hardly dares his purpose to unfold.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Less with his faltering lips than with his eyes",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "He claims the longed-for prize:",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Love fain would tell it all, yet leaves the best untold.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But thou shalt speak for love. Yea, thou shalt teach",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The mystery of measured tone,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "The Pentecostal speech",
    "indent": 4
   },
   {
    "text": "That every listener heareth as his own.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "For on thy head the cloven tongues of fire⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Diminished chords that quiver with desire,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And major chords that glow with perfect peace⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Have fallen from above;",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "And thou canst give release",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "In music to the burdened heart of love.",
    "indent": 1
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Sound with the cellos’ pleading, passionate strain",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The yearning theme, and let the flute reply",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "In placid melody, while violins complain,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And sob, and sigh,",
    "indent": 5
   },
   {
    "text": "With muted string;",
    "indent": 5
   },
   {
    "text": "Then let the oboe half-reluctant sing",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Of bliss that trembles on the verge of pain,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "While cellos plead and plead again,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "With throbbing notes delayed, that would impart",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "To every urgent tone the beating of the heart.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "So runs the andante, making plain",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "The hopes and fears of love without a word.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Then comes the adagio, with a yielding theme",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Through which the violas flow soft as in a dream,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "While horns and mild bassoons are heard",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "In tender tune, that seems to float",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Like an enchanted boat",
    "indent": 5
   },
   {
    "text": "Upon the downward-gliding stream,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Toward the allegro’s wide, bright sea",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Of dancing, glittering, blending tone,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Where every instrument is sounding free,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And harps like wedding-chimes are rung, and trumpets blown",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Around the barque of love",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "That rides, with smiling skies above,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "A royal galley, many-oared,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Into the happy harbour of the perfect chord.",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Light to the eye and Music to the ear⁠—",
    "indent": 4
   },
   {
    "text": "These are the builders of the bridge that springs",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "From earth’s dim shore of half-remembered things",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "To reach the heavenly sphere",
    "indent": 4
   },
   {
    "text": "Where nothing silent is and nothing dark.",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "So when I see the rainbow’s arc",
    "indent": 4
   },
   {
    "text": "Spanning the showery sky, far-off I hear",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Music, and every colour sings:",
    "indent": 4
   },
   {
    "text": "And while the symphony builds up its round",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Full sweep of architectural harmony",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Above the tide of Time, far, far away I see",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "A bow of colour in the bow of sound.",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Red as the dawn the trumpet rings;",
    "indent": 4
   },
   {
    "text": "Blue as the sky, the choir of strings",
    "indent": 4
   },
   {
    "text": "Darkens in double-bass to ocean’s hue,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Rises in violins to noon-tide’s blue,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "With threads of quivering light shot through and through;",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Green as the mantle that the summer flings",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Around the world, the pastoral reeds in tune",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Embroider melodies of May and June.",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Purer than gold,",
    "indent": 5
   },
   {
    "text": "Yea, thrice-refinèd gold,",
    "indent": 4
   },
   {
    "text": "And richer than the treasures of the mine,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Floods of the human voice divine",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Along the arch in choral song are rolled.",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "So bends the bow complete:",
    "indent": 4
   },
   {
    "text": "And radiant rapture flows",
    "indent": 4
   },
   {
    "text": "Across the bridge, so full, so strong, so sweet,",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "That the uplifted spirit hardly knows",
    "indent": 2
   },
   {
    "text": "Whether the Music-Light that glows",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Within the arch of tones and colours seven,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Is sunset-peace of earth or sunrise-joy of Heaven.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Music, I yield to thee",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "As swimmer to the sea,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "I give my spirit to the flood of song!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Bear me upon thy breast",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "In rapture and at rest,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Bathe me in pure delight and make me strong;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "From strife and struggle bring release,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "And draw the waves of passion into tides of peace.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Remembered songs most dear",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "In living songs I hear,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "While blending voices gently swing and sway,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "In melodies of love,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Whose mighty currents move",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "With singing near and singing far away;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Sweet in the glow of morning light,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "And sweeter still across the starlit gulf of night.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Music, in thee we float,",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "And lose the lonely note",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Of self in thy celestial-ordered strain,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Until at last we find",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "The life to love resigned",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "In harmony of joy restored again;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And songs that cheered our mortal days",
    "indent": 3
   },
   {
    "text": "Break on the shore of light in endless hymns of praise.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ]
 ]
}