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    "text": "Again I see my bliss at hand;",
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    "text": "The town, the lake are here.",
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    "text": "I know that graceful figure fair,",
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    "text": "That cheek of languid hue;",
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    "text": "I know that soft, enkerchief’d hair,",
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    "text": "Again I spring to make my choice;",
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    "text": "Again in tones of ire",
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    "text": "I hear a God’s tremendous voice⁠—",
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    "text": "“Be counsell’d, and retire!”",
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    "text": "Ye guiding Powers, who join and part,",
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    "text": "What would ye have with me?",
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    "text": "Ah, warn some more ambitious heart,",
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    "text": "And let the peaceful be!",
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