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    "text": "Mist clogs the sunshine,",
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    "text": "Yet, while I languish,",
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    "text": "Everywhere, countless",
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    "text": "And countless beings",
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    "text": "Far hence, in Asia,",
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    "text": "Of holy Lassa,",
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    "text": "Bright shines the sun.",
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    "text": "Grey time-worn marbles",
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    "text": "Hold the pure Muses.",
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    "text": "In their cool gallery,",
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    "text": "By yellow Tiber,",
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    "text": "They still look fair.",
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    "text": "Strange unlov’d uproar",
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    "text": "Shrills round their portal.",
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    "text": "Yet not on Helicon",
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    "text": "Kept they more cloudless",
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    "text": "Through sun-proof alleys",
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    "text": "In a lone, sand-hemm’d",
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    "text": "City of Africa,",
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    "text": "No bolder Robber",
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    "text": "Erst abode ambush’d",
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    "text": "Deep in the sandy waste:",
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    "text": "Saharan sand-winds",
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    "text": "Sear’d his keen eyeballs.",
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    "text": "Spent is the spoil he won.",
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    "text": "For him the present",
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    "text": "Two young, fair lovers,",
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    "text": "With sweet, join’d voices,",
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    "text": "And with eyes brimming⁠—",
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    "text": "“Ah,” they cry, “Destiny!",
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    "text": "Prolong the present!",
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    "text": "Time! stand still here!”",
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    "text": "The prompt stern Goddess",
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    "text": "Shakes her head, frowning.",
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    "text": "Time gives his hour-glass",
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    "text": "Its due reversal.",
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    "text": "With weak indulgence",
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    "text": "Did the just Goddess",
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    "text": "Lengthen their happiness,",
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    "text": "She lengthen’d also",
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    "text": "The hour, whose happy",
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    "text": "Unalloy’d moments",
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    "text": "I would eternalize,",
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    "text": "Ten thousand mourners",
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    "text": "Well pleas’d see end.",
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    "text": "The bleak stern hour,",
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    "text": "Whose severe moments",
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    "text": "I would annihilate,",
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    "text": "Is pass’d by others",
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    "text": "In warmth, light, joy.",
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    "text": "Time, so complain’d of,",
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    "text": "Who to no one man",
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    "text": "Shows partiality,",
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    "text": "Brings round to all men",
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    "text": "Some undimm’d hours.",
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