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    "text": "Come, my beloved, hear from me",
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   {
    "text": "Tales of the woods or open sea.",
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   {
    "text": "Let our aspiring fancy rise",
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   {
    "text": "A wren’s flight higher toward the skies;",
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   {
    "text": "Or far from cities, brown and bare,",
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   {
    "text": "Play at the least in open air.",
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   {
    "text": "In all the tales men hear us tell",
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   {
    "text": "Still let the unfathomed ocean swell,",
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   {
    "text": "Or shallower forest sound abroad",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Below the lonely stars of God;",
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   {
    "text": "In all, let something still be done,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Still in a corner shine the sun,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Slim-ankled maids be fleet of foot,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor man disown the rural flute.",
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   {
    "text": "Still let the hero from the start",
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   {
    "text": "In honest sweat and beats of heart",
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   {
    "text": "Push on along the untrodden road",
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   {
    "text": "For some inviolate abode.",
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   {
    "text": "Still, O beloved, let me hear",
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   {
    "text": "The great bell beating far and near⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The odd, unknown, enchanted gong",
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   {
    "text": "That on the road hales men along,",
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   {
    "text": "That from the mountain calls afar,",
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   {
    "text": "That lures a vessel from a star,",
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   {
    "text": "And with a still, aerial sound",
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    "text": "Makes all the earth enchanted ground.",
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   {
    "text": "Love, and the love of life and act",
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   {
    "text": "Dance, live and sing through all our furrowed tract;",
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   {
    "text": "Till the great God enamoured gives",
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   {
    "text": "To him who reads, to him who lives,",
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   {
    "text": "That rare and fair romantic strain",
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    "text": "That whoso hears must hear again.",
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