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 "epigraph": "“Dark eyes are dearer far / Than those that mock the hyacinthine bell.”",
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    "text": "Blue! ’Tis the life of heaven,⁠—the domain",
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    "text": "Of Cynthia,⁠—the wide palace of the sun,⁠—",
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    "text": "The tent of Hesperus, and all his train,⁠—",
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    "text": "The bosomer of clouds, gold, gray, and dun.",
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   {
    "text": "Blue! ’Tis the life of waters⁠—ocean",
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   {
    "text": "And all its vassal streams, pools numberless,",
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   {
    "text": "May rage, and foam, and fret, but never can",
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   {
    "text": "Subside, if not to dark blue nativeness.",
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   {
    "text": "Blue! Gentle cousin of the forest-green,",
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   {
    "text": "Married to green in all the sweetest flowers,⁠—",
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    "text": "Forget-me-not,⁠—the blue bell,⁠—and, that queen",
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    "text": "Of secrecy, the violet: what strange powers",
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    "text": "Hast thou, as a mere shadow! But how great,",
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    "text": "When in an Eye thou art, alive with fate!",
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