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   {
    "text": "Bards of Passion and of Mirth,",
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   {
    "text": "Ye have left your souls on earth!",
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   {
    "text": "Have ye souls in heaven too,",
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   {
    "text": "Double-lived in regions new?",
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   {
    "text": "Yes, and those of heaven commune",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With the spheres of sun and moon;",
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   {
    "text": "With the noise of fountains wond’rous",
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    "text": "And the parle of voices thund’rous;",
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   {
    "text": "With the whisper of heaven’s trees",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And one another, in soft ease",
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   {
    "text": "Seated on Elysian lawns",
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   {
    "text": "Browsed by none but Dian’s fawns;",
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   {
    "text": "Underneath large blue-bells tented,",
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   {
    "text": "Where the daisies are rose-scented,",
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   {
    "text": "And the rose herself has got",
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    "text": "Perfume which on earth is not;",
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   {
    "text": "Where the nightingale doth sing",
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   {
    "text": "Not a senseless, tranced thing,",
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   {
    "text": "But divine melodious truth;",
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   {
    "text": "Philosophic numbers smooth;",
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   {
    "text": "Tales and golden histories",
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   {
    "text": "Of heaven and its mysteries.",
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    "text": "Thus ye live on high, and then,",
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    "text": "On the earth ye live again;",
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    "text": "And the souls ye left behind you",
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   {
    "text": "Teach us, here, the way to find you,",
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   {
    "text": "Where your other souls are joying,",
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   {
    "text": "Never slumber’d, never cloying.",
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   {
    "text": "Here, your earth-born souls still speak",
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   {
    "text": "To mortals, of their little week;",
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   {
    "text": "Of their sorrows and delights;",
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   {
    "text": "Of their passions and their spites;",
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   {
    "text": "Of their glory and their shame;",
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   {
    "text": "What doth strengthen and what maim.",
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   {
    "text": "Thus ye teach us, every day,",
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   {
    "text": "Wisdom, though fled far away.",
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    "text": "Bards of Passion and of Mirth,",
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   {
    "text": "Ye have left your souls on earth!",
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   {
    "text": "Ye have souls in heaven too,",
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    "text": "Double-lived in regions new!",
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