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 "poet": "Oscar Wilde",
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    "text": "The apple trees are hung with gold,",
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    "text": "And birds are loud in Arcady,",
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    "text": "The sheep lie bleating in the fold,",
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    "text": "The wild goat runs across the wold,",
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    "text": "But yesterday his love he told,",
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    "text": "I know he will come back to me.",
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    "text": "O rising moon! O Lady moon!",
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    "text": "Be you my lover’s sentinel,",
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    "text": "You cannot choose but know him well,",
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    "text": "For he is shod with purple shoon,",
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    "text": "You cannot choose but know my love,",
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    "text": "For he a shepherd’s crook doth bear,",
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    "text": "And he is soft as any dove,",
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    "text": "And brown and curly is his hair.",
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    "text": "The turtle now has ceased to call",
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    "text": "Upon her crimson-footed groom,",
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    "text": "The grey wolf prowls about the stall,",
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    "text": "The lily’s singing seneschal",
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    "text": "Sleeps in the lily-bell, and all",
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    "text": "The violet hills are lost in gloom.",
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    "text": "O risen moon! O holy moon!",
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    "text": "Stand on the top of Helice,",
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    "text": "And if my own true love you see,",
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    "text": "Ah! if you see the purple shoon,",
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    "text": "The hazel crook, the lad’s brown hair,",
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    "text": "The goat-skin wrapped about his arm,",
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    "text": "Tell him that I am waiting where",
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    "text": "The rushlight glimmers in the Farm.",
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    "text": "The falling dew is cold and chill,",
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    "text": "And no bird sings in Arcady,",
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    "text": "The little fauns have left the hill,",
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    "text": "Even the tired daffodil",
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    "text": "Has closed its gilded doors, and still",
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    "text": "My lover comes not back to me.",
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    "text": "False moon! False moon! O waning moon!",
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    "text": "Where is my own true lover gone,",
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    "text": "Where are the lips vermilion,",
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    "text": "The shepherd’s crook, the purple shoon?",
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    "text": "Why spread that silver pavilion,",
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    "text": "Why wear that veil of drifting mist?",
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    "text": "Ah! thou hast young Endymion,",
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    "text": "Thou hast the lips that should be kissed!",
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