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    "text": "As one who having wandered all night long",
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    "text": "In a perplexed forest, comes at length",
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    "text": "In the first hours, about the matin song,",
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    "text": "And when the sun uprises in his strength,",
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   {
    "text": "To the fringed margin of the wood, and sees,",
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    "text": "Gazing afar before him, many a mile",
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    "text": "Of falling country, many fields and trees,",
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    "text": "And cities and bright streams and far-off Ocean’s smile:",
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    "text": "I, O Melampus, halting, stand at gaze:",
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    "text": "I, liberated, look abroad on life,",
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    "text": "Love, and distress, and dusty travelling ways,",
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    "text": "The steersman’s helm, the surgeon’s helpful knife,",
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    "text": "On the lone ploughman’s earth-upturning share,",
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    "text": "The revelry of cities and the sound",
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    "text": "Of seas, and mountain-tops aloof in air,",
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    "text": "And of the circling earth the unsupported round:",
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    "text": "I, looking, wonder: I, intent, adore;",
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    "text": "And, O Melampus, reaching forth my hands",
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    "text": "In adoration, cry aloud and soar",
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    "text": "In spirit, high above the supine lands",
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    "text": "And the low caves of mortal things, and flee",
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    "text": "To the last fields of the universe untrod,",
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    "text": "Where is no man, nor any earth, nor sea,",
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    "text": "And the contented soul is all alone with God.",
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