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    "text": "Far over seas an island is",
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    "text": "Whereon when day is done",
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    "text": "Are printed on the sun.",
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    "text": "And all about the reefy shore",
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    "text": "Blue breakers flash and fall.",
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    "text": "There shall I go, methinks,",
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    "text": "When I am done with all.",
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    "text": "Have I no castle then in Spain,",
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    "text": "No island of the mind,",
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    "text": "Where I can turn and go again",
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    "text": "When life shall prove unkind?",
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    "text": "Up, sluggard soul! and far from here",
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    "text": "Our mountain forest seek;",
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    "text": "Or nigh enchanted island, steer",
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