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    "text": "When you are old enough to know",
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   {
    "text": "The joys of kite and boat and bow",
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    "text": "And other suchlike splendid things",
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    "text": "That boyhood’s rounded decade brings,",
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    "text": "I shall not give you tropes and rhymes;",
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    "text": "But, rising to those rousing times,",
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    "text": "I shall ply well the craft I know",
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    "text": "Of shaping kite and boat and bow,",
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    "text": "For you shall teach me once again",
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    "text": "The goodly art of being ten.",
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    "text": "Meanwhile, as on a rainy day",
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    "text": "When ’tis not possible to play,",
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    "text": "The while you do your best to grow",
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    "text": "I ply the other craft I know",
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    "text": "And strive to build for you the mood",
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    "text": "Of daring and of fortitude",
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    "text": "With fitted word and shapen phrase,",
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    "text": "Against those later wonder-days",
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    "text": "When first you glimpse the world of men",
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    "text": "Beyond the bleaker side of ten.",
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