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    "text": "The little white clouds are racing over the sky,",
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    "text": "And the fields are strewn with the gold of the flower of March,",
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    "text": "A delicate odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,",
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    "text": "And the plane to the pine-tree is whispering some tale of love",
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    "text": "See! the lark starts up from his bed in the meadow there,",
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    "text": "And flashing adown the river, a flame of blue!",
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