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    "text": "We saw fair Cadiz gleam out suddenly,",
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    "text": "White as if builded of the foam of Ocean;",
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    "text": "Her sweet breath met us with the wind’s least motion.",
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    "text": "And by her side a cloudy mountain rose,",
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    "text": "Its top enfolding soft a purple tower;",
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    "text": "Such shapes sometimes our new-world sunset shows,",
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    "text": "But thou, old mountain! on thy sides still flower",
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    "text": "The very blooms of poor Zarifa’s bower.",
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    "text": "And from thy purple turrets leaning low,",
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    "text": "Thy course is seen, oh shining Guadalquiver!",
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    "text": "Rushing towards the sea, its waves to strew",
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    "text": "With leaves of old Romance,",
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    "text": "Fade once again on the horizon’s rim,",
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    "text": "Take back the vision and the sweet emotion,",
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    "text": "Oh lovely Cadiz! bride so fair and dim!",
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    "text": "Drained is the cup thou filled’st me to the brim,",
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   {
    "text": "And dropped within the bluest wave of Ocean!",
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