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 "title": "Waiting for the Morning",
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    "text": "They are at rest:",
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    "text": "We may not stir the heaven of their repose",
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    "text": "With loud-voiced grief, or passionate request,",
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    "text": "Or selfish plaint for those",
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    "text": "Who in the mountain grots of Eden lie,",
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    "text": "And hear the fourfold river, as it hurries by.",
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    "text": "They hear it sweep",
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    "text": "In distance down the dark and savage vale;",
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    "text": "But they at eddying pool or current deep",
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    "text": "Shall never more grow pale;",
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    "text": "They hear, and meekly muse, as fain to know",
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    "text": "How long untired, unspent, that giant stream shall flow.",
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    "text": "And soothing sounds",
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    "text": "Blend with the neighbouring waters as they glide;",
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    "text": "Posted along the haunted garden’s bounds",
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    "text": "Angelic forms abide,",
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