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"text": "And who but thou must be, in truth,",
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"text": "Yes, I forget the world’s work wrought,",
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"text": "And to thy mountain-chalet come",
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"text": "While thus I mused, night gently ran",
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"text": "“And is it thou,” he cried, “so long",
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"text": "“And from thy world, with heart opprest,",
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"text": "Ah me, we anchorites knew it best!",
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"text": "“Thou fledd’st me when the ungenial earth,",
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"text": "“Tears wash’d the trouble from her face!",
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"text": "She changed into a child!",
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"text": "“Oh, had I lived in that great day,",
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"text": "Fill’d earth and heaven, and caught away",
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"text": "Had stood against the wave",
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"text": "Of love which set so deep and strong",
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"text": "“No lonely life had pass’d too slow",
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"text": "When I could hourly see",
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"text": "“Could see the Mother with the Child",
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"text": "Have to his little arms beguiled",
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"text": "“And centuries came, and ran their course,",
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"text": "And unspent all that time",
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"text": "“Ay, ages long endured his span",
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"text": "He lived while we believed.",
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"text": "“While we believed, on earth he went,",
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"text": "Men call’d from chamber, church, and tent,",
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"text": "“Now he is dead. Far hence he lies",
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"text": "In the lorn Syrian town,",
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"text": "And on his grave, with shining eyes,",
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"text": "The Syrian stars look down.",
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"text": "“In vain men still, with hoping new,",
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"text": "Regard his death-place dumb,",
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"text": "And say the stone is not yet to,",
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"text": "“Ah, from that silent sacred land,",
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"text": "And crumbling wall, and sultry sand,",
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"text": "Comes now one word alone!",
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"text": "“From David’s lips this word did roll,",
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"text": "’Tis true and living yet:",
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"text": "No man can save his brother’s soul,",
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"text": "“Alone, self-poised, henceforth man",
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"text": "His all too human creeds, and scan",
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"text": "“But slow that tide of common thought,",
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"text": "Which bathed our life, retired.",
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"text": "Slow, slow the old world wore to naught,",
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"text": "“Its frame yet stood without a breach",
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"text": "When blood and warmth were fled;",
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"text": "But every word was dead.",
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"text": "“And oh, we cried, that on this corse",
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"text": "“Down came the storm! In ruins fell",
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"text": "Again appear’d the blue.",
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"text": "“The sun shone in the new-wash’d sky—",
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"text": "And what from heaven saw he?",
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"text": "Blocks of the past, like icebergs high,",
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"text": "“Upon them ply the race of man",
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"text": "All they before endeavour’d;",
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"text": "They come and go, they work and plan,",
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"text": "“Poor fragments of a broken world",
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"text": "Whereon we pitch our tent!",
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"text": "Why were ye too to death not hurl’d",
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"text": "When your world’s day was spent?",
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"text": "“That glow of central fire is done",
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"text": "Which with its fusing flame",
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"text": "Knit all your parts, and kept you one;—",
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"text": "But ye, ye are the same!",
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"text": "“The past, its mask of union on,",
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"text": "Had ceased to live and thrive.",
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"text": "The past, its mask of union gone,",
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"text": "Say, is it more alive?",
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"text": "“Your creeds are dead, your rites are dead,",
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"text": "Your social order too.",
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"text": "Where tarries he, the Power who said:",
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"text": "See, I make all things new?",
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"text": "“The millions suffer still, and grieve;",
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"text": "And what can helpers heal",
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"text": "With old-world cures men half believe",
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"text": "For woes they wholly feel?",
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"text": "“And yet men have such need of joy!",
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"text": "And joy whose grounds are true!",
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"text": "And joy that should all hearts employ",
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"text": "As when the past was new!",
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"text": "“Ah, not the emotion of that past,",
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"text": "Its common hope, were vain!",
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"text": "A new such hope must dawn at last,",
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"text": "“But now the past is out of date,",
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"text": "The new is not yet born—",
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"text": "And who can be alone elate,",
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"text": "While the world lies forlorn?",
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"text": "“Then to the wilderness I fled.",
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"text": "“It was not yet the appointed hour.",
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"text": "Sad, patient, and resign’d,",
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"text": "I watch’d the crocus fade and flower,",
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"text": "I felt the sun and wind.",
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"text": "“The day I lived in was not mine—",
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{
"text": "Man gets no second day.",
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"text": "In dreams I saw the future shine,",
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"text": "But ah, I could not stay!",
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"text": "“Action I had not, followers, fame.",
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{
"text": "I pass’d obscure, alone.",
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{
"text": "The after-world forgets my name,",
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"text": "Nor do I wish it known.",
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"text": "“Gloom-wrapt within, I lived and died,",
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{
"text": "And knew my life was vain.",
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{
"text": "With fate I murmur not, nor chide;",
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"text": "At Sèvres by the Seine",
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"text": "“(If Paris that brief flight allow)",
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{
"text": "My humble tomb explore;",
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{
"text": "It bears: Eternity, be thou",
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{
"text": "My refuge! and no more.",
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"text": "“But thou, whom fellowship of mood",
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{
"text": "Did make from haunts of strife",
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"text": "Come to my mountain solitude,",
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"text": "And learn my frustrate life;",
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"text": "“O thou, who, ere thy flying span",
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{
"text": "Was past of cheerful youth,",
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{
"text": "Didst seek the solitary man",
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"text": "And love his cheerless truth—",
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"text": "“Despair not thou as I despair’d,",
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{
"text": "Nor be cold gloom thy prison!",
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{
"text": "Forward the gracious hours have fared,",
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{
"text": "And see! the sun is risen.",
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"text": "“He melts the icebergs of the past,",
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{
"text": "A green, new earth appears.",
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{
"text": "Millions, whose life in ice lay fast,",
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{
"text": "Have thoughts, and smiles, and tears.",
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"text": "“The world’s great order dawns in sheen,",
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{
"text": "After long darkness rude,",
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{
"text": "Divinelier imaged, clearer seen,",
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{
"text": "With happier zeal pursued.",
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"text": "“With hope extinct and brow composed",
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{
"text": "I mark’d the present die;",
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{
"text": "Its term of life was nearly closed,",
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{
"text": "Yet it had more than I.",
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"text": "“But thou, though to the world’s new hour",
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{
"text": "Thou come with aspect marr’d,",
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{
"text": "Shorn of the joy, the bloom, the power",
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"text": "Which best befits its bard;",
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"text": "“Though more than half thy years be past,",
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{
"text": "And spent thy youthful prime;",
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"text": "Though, round thy firmer manhood cast,",
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"text": "Hang weeds of our sad time,",
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"text": "“Whereof thy youth felt all the spell,",
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{
"text": "And traversed all the shade—",
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"text": "Though late, though dimm’d, though weak, yet tell",
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{
"text": "Hope to a world new-made!",
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"text": "“Help it to fill that deep desire,",
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{
"text": "The dream which fill’d our brain,",
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{
"text": "Fix’d in our soul a thirst like fire,",
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"text": "Immedicable pain!",
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"text": "“Which to the wilderness drove out",
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{
"text": "Our life, to Alpine snow;",
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"text": "And palsied all our word with doubt,",
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"text": "And all our work with woe—",
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{
"text": "“What still of strength is left, employ",
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{
"text": "That end to help attain:",
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{
"text": "One common wave of thought and joy",
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"text": "Lifting mankind again!”",
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{
"text": "The vision ended. I awoke",
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{
"text": "As out of sleep, and no",
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{
"text": "Voice moved—only the torrent broke",
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{
"text": "The silence, far below.",
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"text": "Soft darkness on the turf did lie;",
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"text": "Solemn, o’er hut and wood,",
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"text": "In the yet star-sown nightly sky,",
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{
"text": "The peak of Jaman stood.",
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"text": "Still in my soul the voice I heard",
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{
"text": "Of Obermann—away",
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{
"text": "I turned; by some vague impulse stirr’d,",
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"text": "Along the rocks of Naye",
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"text": "And Sonchaud’s piny flanks I gaze",
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{
"text": "And the blanch’d summit bare",
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{
"text": "Of Malatrait, to where in haze",
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{
"text": "The Valais opens fair,",
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"text": "And the domed Velan with his snows",
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"text": "Behind the upcrowding hills",
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"text": "Doth all the heavenly opening close",
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"text": "Which the Rhone’s murmur fills—",
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"text": "And glorious there, without a sound,",
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{
"text": "Across the glimmering lake,",
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"text": "High in the Valais depth profound,",
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"text": "I saw the morning break.",
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