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 "poet": "Mary Weston Fordham",
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 "book": "Magnolia Leaves",
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    "text": "Fain would I rival thee",
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    "text": "Monarch of birds",
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    "text": "Soaring so loftily",
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    "text": "Up to the clouds!",
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    "text": "Spreading thy pinions",
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    "text": "And mounting on air,",
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    "text": "Ethereally floating",
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    "text": "Divinely and fair.",
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    "text": "Where is thy resting place?",
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    "text": "Where dost thou dwell?",
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    "text": "Is the mountain thy home",
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    "text": "Or the stern rock thy cell?",
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    "text": "Dost thou live in the desert?",
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    "text": "Is the forest thy lair?",
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    "text": "O, where is thy resting place?",
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    "text": "Eagle, say where?",
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    "text": "Always tending upward",
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    "text": "May this be my aim;",
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    "text": "Ne’er swerving from duty",
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    "text": "Or shrinking from pain.",
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    "text": "’Tis thus would I rival thee",
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    "text": "Monarch of birds,",
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    "text": "When soaring loftily",
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    "text": "Up to the clouds.",
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