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    "text": "One morn before me were three figures seen,",
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   {
    "text": "With bowed necks, and joined hands, side-faced;",
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   {
    "text": "And one behind the other stepp’d serene,",
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    "text": "In placid sandals, and in white robes graced;",
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    "text": "They pass’d, like figures on a marble urn,",
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    "text": "When shifted round to see the other side;",
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    "text": "They came again; as when the urn once more",
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    "text": "Is shifted round, the first seen shades return;",
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   {
    "text": "And they were strange to me, as may betide",
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    "text": "With vases, to one deep in Phidian lore.",
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   {
    "text": "How is it, Shadows! that I knew ye not?",
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    "text": "How came ye muffled in so hush a mask?",
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    "text": "Was it a silent deep-disguised plot",
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    "text": "To steal away, and leave without a task",
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    "text": "My idle days? Ripe was the drowsy hour;",
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    "text": "The blissful cloud of summer-indolence",
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    "text": "Benumb’d my eyes; my pulse grew less and less;",
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    "text": "Pain had no sting, and pleasure’s wreath no flower:",
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   {
    "text": "O, why did ye not melt, and leave my sense",
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    "text": "Unhaunted quite of all but⁠—nothingness?",
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    "text": "A third time pass’d they by, and, passing, turn’d",
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    "text": "Each one the face a moment whiles to me;",
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    "text": "Then faded, and to follow them I burn’d",
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    "text": "And ached for wings, because I knew the three;",
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    "text": "The first was a fair Maid, and Love her name;",
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    "text": "The second was Ambition, pale of cheek,",
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    "text": "And ever watchful with fatigued eye;",
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    "text": "The last, whom I love more, the more of blame",
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    "text": "Is heap’d upon her, maiden most unmeek,⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "I knew to be my demon Poesy.",
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    "text": "They faded, and, forsooth! I wanted wings:",
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    "text": "O folly! What is Love? and where is it?",
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    "text": "And for that poor Ambition! it springs",
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    "text": "From a man’s little heart’s short fever-fit;",
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    "text": "For Poesy!⁠—no,⁠—she has not a joy,⁠—",
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    "text": "At least for me,⁠—so sweet as drowsy noons,",
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    "text": "And evenings steep’d in honied indolence;",
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    "text": "O, for an age so shelter’d from annoy,",
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    "text": "That I may never know how change the moons,",
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    "text": "Or hear the voice of busy common-sense!",
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    "text": "And once more came they by;⁠—alas! wherefore?",
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   {
    "text": "My sleep had been embroider’d with dim dreams;",
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    "text": "My soul had been a lawn besprinkled o’er",
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    "text": "With flowers, and stirring shades, and baffled beams:",
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    "text": "The morn was clouded, but no shower fell,",
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   {
    "text": "Though in her lids hung the sweet tears of May;",
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   {
    "text": "The open casement press’d a new-leaved vine,",
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   {
    "text": "Let in the budding warmth and throstle’s lay;",
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   {
    "text": "O Shadows! ’twas a time to bid farewell!",
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   {
    "text": "Upon your skirts had fallen no tears of mine.",
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   {
    "text": "So, ye three Ghosts, adieu! Ye cannot raise",
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   {
    "text": "My head cool-bedded in the flowery grass;",
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   {
    "text": "For I would not be dieted with praise,",
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   {
    "text": "A pet-lamb in a sentimental farce!",
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   {
    "text": "Fade softly from my eyes and be once more",
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   {
    "text": "In masque-like figures on the dreamy urn;",
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   {
    "text": "Farewell! I yet have visions for the night,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And for the day faint visions there is store;",
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   {
    "text": "Vanish, ye Phantoms! from my idle spright,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Into the clouds, and nevermore return!",
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