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 "title": "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again",
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   {
    "text": "O golden-tongued Romance, with serene lute!",
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   {
    "text": "Fair plumèd Syren, Queen of far away!",
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   {
    "text": "Leave melodizing on this wintry day,",
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   {
    "text": "Shut up thine olden pages, and be mute:",
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   {
    "text": "Adieu! for once again the fierce dispute,",
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   {
    "text": "Betwixt damnation and impassion’d clay,",
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   {
    "text": "Must I burn through; once more humbly assay",
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   {
    "text": "The bitter sweet of this Shakespearean fruit:",
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   {
    "text": "Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion,",
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   {
    "text": "Begetters of our deep eternal theme!",
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   {
    "text": "When through the old oak forest I am gone,",
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   {
    "text": "Let me not wander in a barren dream,",
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   {
    "text": "But when I am consumèd in the Fire,",
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   {
    "text": "Give me new Phœnix-wings to fly at my desire.",
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