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    "text": "Can I forget thee? No, while mem’ry lasts,",
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    "text": "Life’s sunny hours, would quickly lose their charm,",
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    "text": "Can I forget thee? ’Tis a sad, sad thought,",
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    "text": "That friend from friend should thus be ruthless riven⁠—",
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    "text": "But list, methinks, a sweet voice whispers low,",
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    "text": "Remember, no adieus are spoke in heaven.",
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    "text": "Can I forget thee? No, though ocean’s waves",
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    "text": "May madly leap and foam ’twixt you and me,",
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    "text": "Still o’er my stricken heart this yearning will remain,",
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    "text": "Nor time estrange my love, dear one, from thee.",
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    "text": "And though on earth again we never more may meet,",
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    "text": "May we in concert with that transported throng,",
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