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    "text": "My limbs are wasted with a flame,",
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    "text": "My feet are sore with travelling,",
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   {
    "text": "For, calling on my Lady’s name,",
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    "text": "My lips have now forgot to sing.",
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    "text": "O Linnet in the wild-rose brake",
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   {
    "text": "Strain for my Love thy melody,",
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    "text": "O Lark sing louder for love’s sake,",
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    "text": "My gentle Lady passeth by.",
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    "text": "She is too fair for any man",
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    "text": "To see or hold his heart’s delight,",
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    "text": "Or moonlit water in the night.",
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    "text": "Her hair is bound with myrtle leaves,",
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    "text": "(Green leaves upon her golden hair!)",
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    "text": "Green grasses through the yellow sheaves",
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    "text": "Of autumn corn are not more fair.",
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    "text": "Her little lips, more made to kiss",
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    "text": "Than to cry bitterly for pain,",
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    "text": "Are tremulous as brook-water is,",
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    "text": "Or roses after evening rain.",
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    "text": "Her neck is like white melilote",
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    "text": "Flushing for pleasure of the sun,",
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    "text": "The throbbing of the linnet’s throat",
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    "text": "As a pomegranate, cut in twain,",
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    "text": "White-seeded, is her crimson mouth,",
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    "text": "Where the peach reddens to the south.",
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    "text": "O twining hands! O delicate",
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    "text": "O House of love! O desolate",
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    "text": "Pale flower beaten by the rain!",
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