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 "title": "To Autumn",
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    "text": "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,",
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    "text": "Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;",
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    "text": "Conspiring with him how to load and bless",
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    "text": "With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;",
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    "text": "To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,",
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    "text": "And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;",
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    "text": "To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells",
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    "text": "With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,",
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    "text": "And still more, later flowers for the bees,",
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    "text": "Until they think warm days will never cease,",
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    "text": "For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.",
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    "text": "Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?",
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    "text": "Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find",
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    "text": "Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,",
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    "text": "Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;",
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    "text": "Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,",
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    "text": "Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook",
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    "text": "Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:",
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    "text": "And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep",
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    "text": "Steady thy laden head across a brook;",
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    "text": "Or by a cider-press, with patient look,",
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    "text": "Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?",
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    "text": "Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,⁠—",
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    "text": "While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,",
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    "text": "And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;",
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    "text": "Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn",
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    "text": "Among the river-sallows, borne aloft",
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    "text": "Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;",
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    "text": "And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;",
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    "text": "Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft",
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    "text": "The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,",
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    "text": "And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.",
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