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    "text": "Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies,",
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   {
    "text": "For more adornment, a full thousand years;",
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    "text": "She took their cream of Beauty’s fairest dyes,",
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    "text": "And shaped and tinted her above all Peers:",
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   {
    "text": "Meanwhile Love kept her dearly with his wings,",
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    "text": "And underneath their shadow fill’d her eyes",
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    "text": "With such a richness that the cloudy Kings",
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    "text": "Of high Olympus utter’d slavish sighs.",
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    "text": "When from the Heavens I saw her first descend,",
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    "text": "My heart took fire, and only burning pains,",
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    "text": "They were my pleasures⁠—they my Life’s sad end;",
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    "text": "Love pour’d her beauty into my warm veins.",
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