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 "title": "At Fingal’s Cave",
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    "text": "Not Aladdin magian",
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   {
    "text": "Ever such a work began;",
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   {
    "text": "Not the wizard of the Dee",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ever such a dream could see;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not St. John, in Patmos’ isle,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the passion of his toil,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When he saw the churches seven,",
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   {
    "text": "Golden aisled, built up in heaven,",
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   {
    "text": "Gazed at such a rugged wonder,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As I stood its roofing under.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lo! I saw one sleeping there,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On the marble cold and bare;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While the surges wash’d his feet,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And his garments white did beat",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Drench’d about the sombre rocks;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On his neck his well-grown locks,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lifted dry above the main,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Were upon the curl again.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“What is this? and what art thou?”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whisper’d I, and touch’d his brow;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“What art thou? and what is this?”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whisper’d I, and strove to kiss",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The spirit’s hand, to wake his eyes;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Up he started in a trice:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“I am Lycidas,” said he,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Famed in funeral minstrelsy!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This was architectured thus",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By the great Oceanus!⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here his mighty waters play",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hollow organs all the day;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here, by turns, his dolphins all,",
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   {
    "text": "Finny palmers, great and small,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Come to pay devotion due,⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each a mouth of pearls must strew!",
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   {
    "text": "Many a mortal of these days",
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   {
    "text": "Dares to pass our sacred ways;",
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   {
    "text": "Dares to touch, audaciously,",
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   {
    "text": "This cathedral of the sea!",
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   {
    "text": "I have been the pontiff-priest,",
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    "text": "Where the waters never rest,",
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    "text": "Where a fledgy sea-bird choir",
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    "text": "Soars for ever! Holy fire",
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   {
    "text": "I have hid from mortal man;",
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   {
    "text": "Proteus is my Sacristan!",
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   {
    "text": "But the dulled eye of mortal",
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   {
    "text": "Hath pass’d beyond the rocky portal;",
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   {
    "text": "So for ever will I leave",
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   {
    "text": "Such a taint, and soon unweave",
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   {
    "text": "All the magic of the place.”",
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   {
    "text": "So saying, with a Spirit’s glance",
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   {
    "text": "He dived!",
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