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 "title": "To Edward Caswall",
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    "text": "Once, o’er a clear calm pool,",
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    "text": "The fulness of an over-brimming spring,",
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   {
    "text": "I saw the hawthorn and the chestnut fling",
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    "text": "Their willing arms, of vernal blossoms full",
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   {
    "text": "And light green leaves: the lilac too was there,",
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   {
    "text": "The prodigal laburnum, dropping gold,",
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    "text": "While the rich gorse along the turf crept near,",
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    "text": "Close to the fountain’s margin, and made bold",
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    "text": "To peep into that pool, so calm and clear:⁠—",
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    "text": "As if well pleased to see their image bright",
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   {
    "text": "Reflected back upon their innocent sight;",
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    "text": "Each flower and blossom shy",
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    "text": "Lingering the live-long day in still delight,",
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    "text": "Yet without touch of pride, to view,",
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    "text": "Yea, with a tender, holy sympathy,",
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    "text": "What was itself, yet was another too.",
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    "text": "So on thy verse, my Brother and my Friend,",
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    "text": "—The fresh upwelling of thy tranquil spirit⁠—",
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    "text": "I see a many angel forms attend;",
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    "text": "And gracious souls elect,",
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    "text": "And thronging sacred shades, that shall inherit",
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    "text": "One day the azure skies,",
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    "text": "And peaceful saints, in whitest garments deck’d;",
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    "text": "And happy infants of the second birth:⁠—",
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    "text": "These, and all other plants of paradise,",
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    "text": "Thoughts from above, and visions that are sure,",
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    "text": "And providences past, and memories dear,",
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   {
    "text": "In much content hang o’er that mirror pure,",
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   {
    "text": "And recognize each other’s faces there,",
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   {
    "text": "And see a heaven on earth.",
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