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 "title": "Ode to a Nightingale",
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    "text": "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains",
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    "text": "My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,",
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    "text": "Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains",
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   {
    "text": "One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,",
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    "text": "But being too happy in thine happiness,⁠—",
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    "text": "That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,",
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    "text": "In some melodious plot",
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    "text": "Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,",
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    "text": "Singest of summer in full-throated ease.",
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    "text": "O for a draught of vintage! that hath been",
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    "text": "Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth,",
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    "text": "Tasting of Flora and the country-green,",
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    "text": "Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!",
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    "text": "O for a beaker full of the warm South,",
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    "text": "Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,",
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    "text": "With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,",
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   {
    "text": "And purple-stained mouth;",
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    "text": "That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,",
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   {
    "text": "And with thee fade away into the forest dim:",
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    "text": "Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget",
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    "text": "What thou among the leaves hast never known,",
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    "text": "The weariness, the fever, and the fret",
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    "text": "Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;",
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    "text": "Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,",
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    "text": "Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;",
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    "text": "Where but to think is to be full of sorrow",
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    "text": "And leaden-eyed despairs,",
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    "text": "Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,",
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    "text": "Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.",
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    "text": "Away! away! for I will fly to thee,",
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    "text": "Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,",
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    "text": "But on the viewless wings of Poesy,",
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    "text": "Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:",
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   {
    "text": "Already with thee! tender is the night,",
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   {
    "text": "And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,",
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    "text": "Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays;",
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    "text": "But here there is no light,",
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    "text": "Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown",
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    "text": "Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.",
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    "text": "I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,",
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    "text": "Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,",
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   {
    "text": "But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet",
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   {
    "text": "Wherewith the seasonable month endows",
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    "text": "The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild;",
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    "text": "White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;",
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    "text": "Fast fading violets cover’d up in leaves;",
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   {
    "text": "And mid-May’s eldest child,",
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   {
    "text": "The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,",
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   {
    "text": "The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.",
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   {
    "text": "Darkling I listen; and, for many a time",
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   {
    "text": "I have been half in love with easeful Death,",
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   {
    "text": "Call’d him soft names in many a mused rhyme,",
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    "text": "To take into the air my quiet breath;",
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   {
    "text": "Now more than ever seems it rich to die,",
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   {
    "text": "To cease upon the midnight with no pain,",
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   {
    "text": "While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad",
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   {
    "text": "In such an ecstasy!",
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   {
    "text": "Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "To thy high requiem become a sod.",
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   {
    "text": "Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!",
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   {
    "text": "No hungry generations tread thee down;",
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   {
    "text": "The voice I hear this passing night was heard",
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   {
    "text": "In ancient days by emperor and clown:",
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   {
    "text": "Perhaps the self-same song that found a path",
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   {
    "text": "Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,",
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   {
    "text": "She stood in tears amid the alien corn;",
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   {
    "text": "The same that oft-times hath",
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   {
    "text": "Charm’d magic casements, opening on the foam",
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    "text": "Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.",
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    "text": "Forlorn! the very word is like a bell",
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   {
    "text": "To toll me back from thee to my sole self!",
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   {
    "text": "Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well",
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   {
    "text": "As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.",
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   {
    "text": "Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades",
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   {
    "text": "Past the near meadows, over the still stream,",
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   {
    "text": "Up the hill-side; and now ’tis buried deep",
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   {
    "text": "In the next valley-glades:",
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   {
    "text": "Was it a vision, or a waking dream?",
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   {
    "text": "Fled is that music:⁠—do I wake or sleep?",
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