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    "text": "Farewell, fair day and fading light!",
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   {
    "text": "The clay-born here, with westward sight,",
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   {
    "text": "Marks the huge sun now downward soar.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Farewell. We twain shall meet no more.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Farewell. I watch with bursting sigh",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My late contemned occasion die.",
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   {
    "text": "I linger useless in my tent:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Farewell, fair day, so foully spent!",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Farewell, fair day. If any God",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At all consider this poor clod,",
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   {
    "text": "He who the fair occasion sent",
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   {
    "text": "Prepared and placed the impediment.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Let Him diviner vengeance take⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Give me to sleep, give me to wake",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Girded and shod, and bid me play",
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   {
    "text": "The hero in the coming day!",
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