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 "title": "Serenade",
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 "subtitle": "(For Music)",
 "poet": "Oscar Wilde",
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 "container": "Wind Flowers",
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    "text": "The western wind is blowing fair",
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   {
    "text": "Across the dark Aegean sea,",
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   {
    "text": "And at the secret marble stair",
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   {
    "text": "My Tyrian galley waits for thee.",
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   {
    "text": "Come down! the purple sail is spread,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The watchman sleeps within the town,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O leave thy lily-flowered bed,",
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   {
    "text": "O Lady mine come down, come down!",
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   {
    "text": "She will not come, I know her well,",
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   {
    "text": "Of lover’s vows she hath no care,",
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   {
    "text": "And little good a man can tell",
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    "text": "Of one so cruel and so fair.",
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    "text": "True love is but a woman’s toy,",
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    "text": "They never know the lover’s pain,",
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    "text": "And I who loved as loves a boy",
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    "text": "Must love in vain, must love in vain.",
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    "text": "O noble pilot, tell me true,",
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   {
    "text": "Is that the sheen of golden hair?",
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   {
    "text": "Or is it but the tangled dew",
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   {
    "text": "That binds the passion-flowers there?",
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   {
    "text": "Good sailor come and tell me now",
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    "text": "Is that my Lady’s lily hand?",
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    "text": "Or is it but the gleaming prow,",
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    "text": "Or is it but the silver sand?",
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    "text": "No! no! ’tis not the tangled dew,",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis not the silver-fretted sand,",
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   {
    "text": "It is my own dear Lady true",
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   {
    "text": "With golden hair and lily hand!",
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   {
    "text": "O noble pilot, steer for Troy,",
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   {
    "text": "Good sailor, ply the labouring oar,",
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   {
    "text": "This is the Queen of life and joy",
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   {
    "text": "Whom we must bear from Grecian shore!",
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    "text": "The waning sky grows faint and blue,",
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   {
    "text": "It wants an hour still of day,",
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   {
    "text": "Aboard! aboard! my gallant crew,",
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   {
    "text": "O Lady mine, away! away!",
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   {
    "text": "O noble pilot, steer for Troy,",
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   {
    "text": "Good sailor, ply the labouring oar,",
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   {
    "text": "O loved as only loves a boy!",
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   {
    "text": "O loved for ever evermore!",
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