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   {
    "text": "“Wayside songs and meadow blossoms; nothing perfect, nothing rare;",
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   {
    "text": "Every poet’s ordered, garden yields a hundred flowers more fair;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Master-singers know a music richer far beyond compare.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Yet the reaper in the harvest, ’mid the burden and the heat,",
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   {
    "text": "Hums a half remembered ballad, finds the easy cadence sweet",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sees the very blue of heaven in the corn-bloom at his feet.”",
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   {
    "text": "For the Over-Lord is generous, no straight walls His love confine;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unto few, for world-wide glory, comes the symphony divine;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unto all, for simple pleasure, come the thoughts that sing and shine.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "So to you, dear heart, I bring them: you, among the busy throng,",
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   {
    "text": "Walk beside me, help me, cheer me, keep the days from seeming long:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All the blossoms, all the ballads, touched by you, to you belong⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "You, my flower; you, my song!",
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