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    "text": "In the glad springtime when leaves were green,",
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   {
    "text": "O merrily the throstle sings!",
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   {
    "text": "I sought, amid the tangled sheen,",
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    "text": "Love whom mine eyes had never seen,",
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    "text": "O the glad dove has golden wings!",
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    "text": "Between the blossoms red and white,",
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    "text": "O merrily the throstle sings!",
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    "text": "My love first came into my sight,",
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    "text": "O perfect vision of delight,",
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    "text": "O the glad dove has golden wings!",
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    "text": "The yellow apples glowed like fire,",
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    "text": "O merrily the throstle sings!",
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    "text": "O Love too great for lip or lyre,",
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    "text": "Blown rose of love and of desire,",
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    "text": "O the glad dove has golden wings!",
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    "text": "But now with snow the tree is grey,",
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    "text": "Ah, sadly now the throstle sings!",
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    "text": "My love is dead: ah! well-a-day,",
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    "text": "See at her silent feet I lay",
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   {
    "text": "A dove with broken wings!",
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   {
    "text": "Ah, Love! ah, Love! that thou wert slain⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Fond Dove, fond Dove return again!",
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