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    "text": "Ten years!⁠—and to my waking eye",
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    "text": "The clouds are on the Oberland,",
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    "text": "The house⁠—and is my Marguerite there?",
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    "text": "Ah, shall I see thee, while a flush",
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    "text": "Of startled pleasure floods thy brow,",
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    "text": "Quick through the oleanders brush,",
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    "text": "Or hast thou long since wander’d back,",
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    "text": "Daughter of France! to France, thy home;",
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    "text": "And flitted down the flowery track",
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    "text": "Where feet like thine too lightly come?",
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    "text": "Thy cheek’s soft hue, and fluttering lace",
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    "text": "The kerchief that enwound thy hair?",
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    "text": "Or is it over?⁠—art thou dead?⁠—",
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    "text": "Dead?⁠—and no warning shiver ran",
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    "text": "Across my heart, to say thy thread",
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    "text": "Of life was cut, and closed thy span!",
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    "text": "Could from earth’s ways that figure slight",
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    "text": "Be lost, and I not feel ’twas so?",
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    "text": "Of that fresh voice the gay delight",
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    "text": "Fail from earth’s air, and I not know?",
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    "text": "Or shall I find thee still, but changed,",
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    "text": "But not the Marguerite of thy prime?",
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    "text": "With spirit vanish’d, beauty waned,",
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    "text": "A gesture⁠—anything⁠—retain’d",
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    "text": "Of all that was my Marguerite’s own?",
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    "text": "I will not know!⁠—for wherefore try",
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    "text": "To things by mortal course that live",
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    "text": "For which they were not meant, to give?",
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    "text": "Like driftwood spars which meet and pass",
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    "text": "Upon the boundless ocean-plain,",
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    "text": "So on the sea of life, alas!",
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    "text": "Man meets man, meets, and quits again.",
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    "text": "I knew it when my life was young;",
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    "text": "I feel it still, now youth is o’er!",
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    "text": "The mists are on the mountains hung,",
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    "text": "And Marguerite I shall see no more.",
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