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    "text": "Old Meg she was a Gipsy,",
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   {
    "text": "And liv’d upon the Moors:",
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    "text": "Her bed it was the brown heath turf,",
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    "text": "And her house was out of doors.",
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    "text": "Her apples were swart blackberries,",
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    "text": "Her currants pods o’ broom;",
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    "text": "Her wine was dew of the wild white rose,",
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    "text": "Her book a churchyard tomb.",
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   {
    "text": "Her Brothers were the craggy hills,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her Sisters larchen trees⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Alone with her great family",
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   {
    "text": "She liv’d as she did please.",
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    "text": "No breakfast had she many a morn,",
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    "text": "No dinner many a noon,",
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    "text": "And ’stead of supper she would stare",
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    "text": "Full hard against the Moon.",
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    "text": "But every morn of woodbine fresh",
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    "text": "She made her garlanding,",
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    "text": "And every night the dark glen Yew",
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    "text": "She wove, and she would sing.",
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    "text": "And with her fingers old and brown",
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    "text": "She plaited Mats o’ Rushes,",
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    "text": "And gave them to the Cottagers",
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    "text": "She met among the Bushes,",
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    "text": "Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen",
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    "text": "And tall as Amazon:",
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    "text": "An old red blanket coat she wore;",
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    "text": "A chip hat had she on.",
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   {
    "text": "God rest her aged bones somewhere⁠—",
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    "text": "She died full long agone!",
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