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    "text": "Hark! ah, the Nightingale!",
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    "text": "The tawny-throated!",
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    "text": "Hark! from that moonlit cedar what a burst!",
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    "text": "What triumph! hark⁠—what pain!",
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    "text": "O Wanderer from a Grecian shore,",
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    "text": "Still, after many years, in distant lands,",
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    "text": "Still nourishing in thy bewilder’d brain",
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    "text": "That wild, unquench’d, deep-sunken, old-world pain⁠—",
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    "text": "Say, will it never heal?",
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    "text": "And can this fragrant lawn",
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    "text": "With its cool trees, and night,",
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    "text": "And the sweet, tranquil Thames,",
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    "text": "And moonshine, and the dew,",
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   {
    "text": "To thy rack’d heart and brain",
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    "text": "Afford no balm?",
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    "text": "Dost thou to-night behold",
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    "text": "Here, through the moonlight on this English grass,",
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    "text": "The unfriendly palace in the Thracian wild?",
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    "text": "Dost thou again peruse",
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    "text": "With hot cheeks and sear’d eyes",
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    "text": "The too clear web, and thy dumb Sister’s shame?",
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    "text": "Dost thou once more assay",
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    "text": "Thy flight, and feel come over thee,",
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    "text": "Poor Fugitive, the feathery change",
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    "text": "Once more, and once more seem to make resound",
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    "text": "With love and hate, triumph and agony,",
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    "text": "Lone Daulis, and the high Cephissian vale?",
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    "text": "Listen, Eugenia⁠—",
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    "text": "How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves!",
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   {
    "text": "Again⁠—thou hearest!",
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   {
    "text": "Eternal Passion!",
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    "text": "Eternal Pain!",
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