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    "text": "Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud",
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   {
    "text": "Upon the top of Nevis, blind in mist!",
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   {
    "text": "I look into the chasms, and a shroud",
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   {
    "text": "Vaporous doth hide them,⁠—just so much wist",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mankind do know of hell; I look o’erhead,",
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   {
    "text": "And there is sullen mist,⁠—even so much",
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   {
    "text": "Mankind can tell of heaven; mist is spread",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Before the earth, beneath me,⁠—even such,",
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   {
    "text": "Even so vague is man’s sight of himself!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here are the craggy stones beneath my feet,⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Thus much I know that, a poor witless elf,",
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   {
    "text": "I tread on them,⁠—that all my eye doth meet",
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   {
    "text": "Is mist and crag, not only on this height,",
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   {
    "text": "But in the world of thought and mental might!",
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