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 "title": "Beauty That Is Never Old",
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    "text": "When buffeted and beaten by life’s storms,",
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    "text": "When by the bitter cares of life oppressed,",
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   {
    "text": "I want no surer haven than your arms,",
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    "text": "I want no sweeter heaven than your breast.",
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    "text": "When over my life’s way there falls the blight",
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    "text": "Of sunless days, and nights of starless skies;",
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    "text": "Enough for me, the calm and steadfast light",
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   {
    "text": "That softly shines within your loving eyes.",
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   {
    "text": "The world, for me, and all the world can hold",
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   {
    "text": "Is circled by your arms; for me there lies,",
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    "text": "Within the lights and shadows of your eyes,",
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    "text": "The only beauty that is never old.",
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