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 "title": "The Valley’s Singing Day",
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    "text": "The sound of the closing outside door was all.",
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    "text": "You made no sound in the grass with your footfall,",
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    "text": "As far as you went from the door, which was not far;",
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    "text": "But you had awakened under the morning star",
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    "text": "The first song-bird that awakened all the rest.",
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    "text": "He could have slept but a moment more at best.",
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    "text": "Already determined dawn began to lay",
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    "text": "In place across a cloud the slender ray",
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    "text": "For prying beneath and forcing the lids of sight,",
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    "text": "And loosing the pent-up music of over-night.",
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    "text": "But dawn was not to begin their “pearly-pearly”",
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    "text": "(By which they mean the rain is pearls so early,",
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    "text": "Before it changes to diamonds in the sun),",
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    "text": "Neither was song that day to be self-begun.",
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    "text": "You had begun it, and if there needed proof⁠—",
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    "text": "I was asleep still under the dripping roof,",
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    "text": "My window curtain hung over the sill to wet;",
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    "text": "But I should awake to confirm your story yet;",
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    "text": "I should be willing to say and help you say",
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    "text": "That once you had opened the valley’s singing day.",
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