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 "title": "Misgiving",
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    "text": "All crying “We will go with you, O Wind!”",
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    "text": "The foliage follow him, leaf and stem;",
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    "text": "But a sleep oppresses them as they go,",
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    "text": "Since ever they flung abroad in spring",
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    "text": "The leaves had promised themselves this flight,",
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    "text": "And now they answer his summoning blast",
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    "text": "With an ever vaguer and vaguer stir,",
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