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 "title": "On Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair",
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    "text": "Chief of organic numbers!",
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   {
    "text": "Old Scholar of the Spheres!",
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   {
    "text": "Thy spirit never slumbers,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But rolls about our ears,",
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   {
    "text": "For ever and for ever!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O what a mad endeavour",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Worketh he,",
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   {
    "text": "Who to thy sacred and ennobled hearse",
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   {
    "text": "Would offer a burnt sacrifice of verse",
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   {
    "text": "And melody.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "How heavenward thou soundest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Live Temple of sweet noise,",
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   {
    "text": "And Discord unconfoundest,",
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   {
    "text": "Giving Delight new joys,",
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   {
    "text": "And Pleasure nobler pinions!",
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   {
    "text": "O, where are thy dominions?",
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   {
    "text": "Lend thine ear",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To a young Delian oath,⁠—ay, by thy soul,",
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   {
    "text": "By all that from thy mortal lips did roll,",
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   {
    "text": "And by the kernel of thine earthly love,",
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   {
    "text": "Beauty, in things on earth, and things above,",
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   {
    "text": "I swear!",
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   {
    "text": "When every childish fashion",
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   {
    "text": "Has vanish’d from my rhyme,",
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   {
    "text": "Will I, grey-gone in passion,",
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   {
    "text": "Leave to an after-time,",
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   {
    "text": "Hymning and harmony",
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   {
    "text": "Of thee, and of thy works, and of thy life;",
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   {
    "text": "But vain is now the burning and the strife,",
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   {
    "text": "Pangs are in vain, until I grow high-rife",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With old Philosophy,",
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   {
    "text": "And mad with glimpses of futurity!",
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  [
   {
    "text": "For many years my offering must be hush’d;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When I do speak, I’ll think upon this hour,",
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   {
    "text": "Because I feel my forehead hot and flush’d.",
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   {
    "text": "Even at the simplest vassal of thy power,⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "A lock of thy bright hair⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sudden it came.",
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   {
    "text": "And I was startled, when I caught thy name",
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   {
    "text": "Coupled so unaware;",
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   {
    "text": "Yet, at the moment, temperate was my blood.",
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    "text": "I thought I had beheld it from the flood.",
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