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    "text": "There sat a Lady",
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    "text": "all on the ground,",
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    "text": "Rays of the morning",
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    "text": "circled her round,",
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    "text": "Save thee, and hail to thee,",
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    "text": "Gracious and Fair,",
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    "text": "In the chill twilight",
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    "text": "what wouldst thou there?",
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    "text": "“Here I sit desolate,”",
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    "text": "sweetly said she,",
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    "text": "“Though I’m a queen,",
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    "text": "and my name is Marie:",
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    "text": "Robbers have rifled",
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    "text": "my garden and store,",
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    "text": "my heir from my bower.",
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    "text": "“They said they could keep Him",
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    "text": "far better than I,",
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    "text": "In a palace all His,",
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    "text": "’Twas a palace of ice,",
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    "text": "hard and cold as were they,",
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    "text": "And when summer came,",
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    "text": "“Next would they barter Him,",
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    "text": "Him the Supreme,",
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    "text": "For the spice of the desert,",
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    "text": "and gold of the stream;",
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    "text": "And me they bid wander",
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    "text": "in weeds and alone,",
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    "text": "In this green merry land",
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    "text": "which once was my own.”",
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    "text": "I look’d on that Lady,",
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    "text": "and out from her eyes",
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    "text": "Came the deep glowing blue",
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    "text": "of Italy’s skies;",
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    "text": "And she raised up her head",
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    "text": "“A moment,” she said,",
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    "text": "“and the dead shall revive;",
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    "text": "The giants are failing,",
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    "text": "the Saints are alive;",
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    "text": "I am coming to rescue",
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    "text": "my home and my reign,",
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    "text": "And Peter and Philip",
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    "text": "are close in my train.”",
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