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    "text": "Now Morning from her orient chamber came,",
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    "text": "And her first footsteps touch’d a verdant hill;",
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    "text": "Crowning its lawny crest with amber flame,",
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    "text": "Silv’ring the untainted gushes of its rill;",
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    "text": "Which, pure from mossy beds, did down distil,",
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    "text": "And after parting beds of simple flowers,",
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    "text": "By many streams a little lake did fill,",
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    "text": "Which round its marge reflected woven bowers,",
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   {
    "text": "And, in its middle space, a sky that never lowers.",
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    "text": "There the kingfisher saw his plumage bright,",
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    "text": "Vying with fish of brilliant dye below;",
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    "text": "Whose silken fins, and golden scales’ light",
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    "text": "Cast upward, through the waves, a ruby glow:",
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    "text": "There saw the swan his neck of arched snow,",
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    "text": "And oar’d himself along with majesty;",
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    "text": "Sparkled his jetty eyes; his feet did show",
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    "text": "Beneath the waves like Afric’s ebony,",
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    "text": "And on his back a fay reclined voluptuously.",
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    "text": "Ah! could I tell the wonders of an isle",
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    "text": "That in that fairest lake had placed been,",
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    "text": "I could e’en Dido of her grief beguile;",
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    "text": "Or rob from aged Lear his bitter teen:",
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    "text": "For sure so fair a place was never seen,",
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    "text": "Of all that ever charm’d romantic eye:",
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    "text": "It seem’d an emerald in the silver sheen",
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    "text": "Of the bright waters; or as when on high,",
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    "text": "Through clouds of fleecy white, laughs the cœrulean sky.",
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    "text": "And all around it dipp’d luxuriously",
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    "text": "Slopings of verdure through the glossy tide,",
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    "text": "Which, as it were in gentle amity,",
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    "text": "Rippled delighted up the flowery side;",
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    "text": "As if to glean the ruddy tears, it tried,",
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    "text": "Which fell profusely from the rose-tree stem!",
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    "text": "Haply it was the workings of its pride,",
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    "text": "In strife to throw upon the shore a gem",
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    "text": "Outvying all the buds in Flora’s diadem.",
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