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    "text": "With caws and chirrupings, the woods",
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   {
    "text": "In this thin sun rejoice.",
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    "text": "The Psalm seems but the little kirk",
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    "text": "The cloud-rifts share their amber light",
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    "text": "With the surface of the mere⁠—",
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    "text": "I think the very stones are glad",
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    "text": "To feel each other near.",
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    "text": "Once more my whole heart leaps and swells",
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    "text": "And gushes o’er with glee;",
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    "text": "The fingers of the sun and shade",
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    "text": "Touch music stops in me.",
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    "text": "Now fancy paints that bygone day",
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    "text": "When you were here, my fair⁠—",
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    "text": "The whole lake rang with rapid skates",
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    "text": "In the windless winter air.",
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    "text": "You leaned to me, I leaned to you,",
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    "text": "Our course was smooth as flight⁠—",
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    "text": "We steered⁠—a heel-touch to the left,",
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    "text": "A heel-touch to the right.",
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    "text": "We swung our way through flying men,",
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    "text": "Your hand lay fast in mine:",
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    "text": "We saw the shifting crowd dispart,",
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    "text": "The level ice-reach shine.",
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    "text": "I swear by yon swan-travelled lake,",
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    "text": "I swear had we been drowned that day",
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