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 "title": "I Will Sing You One-O",
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    "text": "Wishing the tower",
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    "text": "The snow fell deep",
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    "text": "Two winds would meet,",
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    "text": "One down one street,",
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    "text": "Of dust and feather.",
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    "text": "I could not say,",
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    "text": "The tower said, “One!”",
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    "text": "Speculation,",
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    "text": "The cosmic motes",
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    "text": "To the eye of man",
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    "text": "On planets over",
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    "text": "Around and under",
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    "text": "It in creation",
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