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    "text": "About the sheltered garden ground",
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    "text": "The trees stand strangely still.",
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    "text": "The vale ne’er seemed so deep before,",
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    "text": "An awful sense of quietness,",
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    "text": "Breathes from the dewy garden-lawns,",
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    "text": "As the hoof-beats of a troop of horse",
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    "text": "Heard far across a plain,",
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    "text": "A nearer knowledge of great thoughts",
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    "text": "Thrills vaguely through my brain.",
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    "text": "I lean my head upon my arm,",
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    "text": "My heart’s too full to think;",
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    "text": "Like the roar of seas, upon my heart",
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    "text": "Doth the morning stillness sink.",
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