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    "text": "Like burnt-out torches by a sick man’s bed",
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    "text": "Gaunt cypress-trees stand round the sun-bleached stone;",
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    "text": "And, where the chaliced poppies flame to red,",
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    "text": "Ah! sweet indeed to rest within the womb",
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