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 "title": "Evening Song",
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    "text": "Full moon rising on the waters of my heart,",
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    "text": "Promises of slumber leaving shore to charm the moon,",
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    "text": "Cloine sleeps,",
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    "text": "And I’ll be sleeping soon.",
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    "text": "Cloine, curled like the sleepy waters where the moon-waves start,",
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    "text": "Radiant, resplendently she gleams,",
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    "text": "Cloine dreams,",
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    "text": "Lips pressed against my heart.",
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