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  "year": 1920,
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    "text": "When down the stair at morning",
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    "text": "The sunbeams round her float,",
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    "text": "Sweet rivulets of laughter",
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    "text": "Are rippling in her throat;",
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    "text": "The gladness of her greeting",
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    "text": "Is gold without alloy;",
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    "text": "And in the morning sunlight",
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    "text": "I think her name is Joy.",
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    "text": "When in the evening twilight",
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    "text": "The quiet book-room lies,",
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    "text": "We read the sad old ballads,",
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    "text": "While from her hidden eyes",
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    "text": "The tears are falling, falling,",
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    "text": "That give her heart relief;",
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    "text": "And in the evening twilight,",
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    "text": "I think her name is Grief.",
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    "text": "My little April lady,",
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    "text": "Of sunshine and of showers",
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    "text": "She weaves the old spring magic,",
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    "text": "And my heart breaks in flowers!",
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    "text": "But when her moods are ended,",
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    "text": "She nestles like a dove;",
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    "text": "Then, by the pain and rapture,",
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    "text": "I know her name is Love.",
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