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 "title": "On the Grasshopper and Cricket",
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    "text": "The poetry of earth is never dead:",
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    "text": "When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,",
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    "text": "And hide in cooling trees; a voice will run",
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    "text": "From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;",
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    "text": "That is the Grasshopper’s⁠—he takes the lead",
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    "text": "In summer luxury,⁠—he has never done",
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    "text": "With his delights; for when tired out with fun,",
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    "text": "He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.",
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    "text": "The poetry of earth is ceasing never:",
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   {
    "text": "On a lone winter evening, when the frost",
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    "text": "Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills",
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    "text": "The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,",
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   {
    "text": "And seems to one, in drowsiness half lost,",
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   {
    "text": "The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.",
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