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    "text": "I can write no stately proem",
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    "text": "As a prelude to my lay;",
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    "text": "From a poet to a poem",
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    "text": "For if of these fallen petals",
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   {
    "text": "One to you seem fair,",
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    "text": "Love will waft it till it settles",
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    "text": "On your hair.",
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    "text": "All the loveless land,",
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    "text": "It will whisper of the garden,",
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