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 "poet": "Oscar Wilde",
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 "container": "The Fourth Movement",
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   {
    "text": "The wild bee reels from bough to bough",
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   {
    "text": "With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,",
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    "text": "Now in a lily-cup, and now",
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    "text": "Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,",
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    "text": "In his wandering;",
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    "text": "Sit closer love: it was here I trow",
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    "text": "I made that vow,",
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    "text": "Swore that two lives should be like one",
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    "text": "As long as the sea-gull loved the sea,",
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    "text": "As long as the sunflower sought the sun⁠—",
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    "text": "It shall be, I said, for eternity",
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    "text": "’Twixt you and me!",
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   {
    "text": "Dear friend, those times are over and done;",
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    "text": "Love’s web is spun.",
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    "text": "Look upward where the poplar trees",
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    "text": "Sway and sway in the summer air,",
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    "text": "Here in the valley never a breeze",
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    "text": "Scatters the thistledown, but there",
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    "text": "Great winds blow fair",
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    "text": "From the mighty murmuring mystical seas,",
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    "text": "And the wave-lashed leas.",
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    "text": "Look upward where the white gull screams,",
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    "text": "What does it see that we do not see?",
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    "text": "Is that a star? or the lamp that gleams",
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    "text": "On some outward voyaging argosy⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Ah! can it be",
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    "text": "We have lived our lives in a land of dreams!",
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   {
    "text": "How sad it seems.",
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    "text": "Sweet, there is nothing left to say",
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    "text": "But this, that love is never lost,",
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    "text": "Keen winter stabs the breasts of May",
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    "text": "Whose crimson roses burst his frost,",
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    "text": "Ships tempest-tossed",
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   {
    "text": "Will find a harbour in some bay,",
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    "text": "And so we may.",
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    "text": "And there is nothing left to do",
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    "text": "But to kiss once again, and part,",
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    "text": "Nay, there is nothing we should rue,",
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    "text": "I have my beauty⁠—you your Art,",
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   {
    "text": "Nay, do not start,",
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    "text": "One world was not enough for two",
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    "text": "Like me and you.",
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