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    "text": "Spenser! a jealous honourer of thine,",
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   {
    "text": "A forester deep in thy midmost trees,",
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   {
    "text": "Did last eve ask my promise to refine",
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   {
    "text": "Some English that might strive thine ear to please.",
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   {
    "text": "But Elfin Poet, ’tis impossible",
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   {
    "text": "For an inhabitant of wintry earth",
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   {
    "text": "To rise like Phœbus with a golden quill",
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   {
    "text": "Fire-wing’d and make a morning in his mirth.",
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   {
    "text": "It is impossible to escape from toil",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O’ the sudden and receive thy spiriting:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The flower must drink the nature of the soil",
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   {
    "text": "Before it can put forth its blossoming:",
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   {
    "text": "Be with me in the summer days, and I",
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   {
    "text": "Will for thine honour and his pleasure try.",
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