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   {
    "text": "What can I do to drive away",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Remembrance from my eyes? for they have seen,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Aye, an hour ago, my brilliant Queen!",
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   {
    "text": "Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,",
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   {
    "text": "What can I do to kill it and be free",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In my old liberty?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When every fair one that I saw was fair,",
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   {
    "text": "Enough to catch me in but half a snare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not keep me there:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When, howe’er poor or parti-colour’d things,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My muse had wings,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And ever ready was to take her course",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whither I bent her force,",
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   {
    "text": "Unintellectual, yet divine to me;⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Divine, I say!⁠—What sea-bird o’er the sea",
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   {
    "text": "Is a philosopher the while he goes",
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   {
    "text": "Winging along where the great water throes?",
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   {
    "text": "How shall I do",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To get anew",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Those moulted feathers, and so mount once more",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Above, above",
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   {
    "text": "The reach of fluttering Love,",
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   {
    "text": "And make him cower lowly while I soar?",
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   {
    "text": "Shall I gulp wine? No, that is vulgarism,",
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   {
    "text": "A heresy and schism,",
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   {
    "text": "Foisted into the canon law of love;⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "No,⁠—wine is only sweet to happy men;",
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   {
    "text": "More dismal cares",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Seize on me unawares,⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where shall I learn to get my piece again?⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To banish thoughts of that most hateful land,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dungeoner of my friends, that wicked strand",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where they were wreck’d and live a wrecked life;",
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   {
    "text": "That monstrous region, whose dull rivers pour,",
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   {
    "text": "Ever from their sordid urns unto the shore,",
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   {
    "text": "Unown’d of any weedy-haired gods;",
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   {
    "text": "Whose winds, all zephyrless, hold scourging rods,",
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   {
    "text": "Iced in the great lakes, to afflict mankind;",
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   {
    "text": "Whose rank-grown forests, frosted, black, and blind,",
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   {
    "text": "Would fright a Dryad; whose harsh herbaged meads",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Make lean and lank the starved ox while he feeds;",
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   {
    "text": "There bad flowers have no scent, birds no sweet song,",
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   {
    "text": "And great unerring Nature once seems wrong.",
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    "text": "O, for some sunny spell",
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   {
    "text": "To dissipate the shadows of this hell!",
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   {
    "text": "Say they are gone,⁠—with the new dawning light",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Steps forth my lady bright!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, let me once more rest",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My soul upon that dazzling breast!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let once again these aching arms be placed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The tender gaolers of thy waist!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And let me feel that warm breath here and there",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To spread a rapture in my very hair,⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, the sweetness of the pain!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me those lips again!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Enough! Enough! it is enough for me",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To dream of thee!",
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