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   {
    "text": "Fixed is the doom; and to the last of years",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Teacher and taught, friend, lover, parent, child,",
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   {
    "text": "Each walks, though near, yet separate; each beholds",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His dear ones shine beyond him like the stars.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We also, love, forever dwell apart;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With cries approach, with cries behold the gulf,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The Unvaulted; as two great eagles that do wheel in air",
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   {
    "text": "Above a mountain, and with screams confer,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far heard athwart the cedars. Yet the years",
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   {
    "text": "Shall bring us ever nearer; day by day",
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    "text": "Endearing, week by week, till death at last",
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   {
    "text": "Dissolve that long divorce. By faith we love,",
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   {
    "text": "Not knowledge; and by faith, though far removed,",
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   {
    "text": "Dwell as in perfect nearness, heart to heart. We but excuse",
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   {
    "text": "Those things we merely are; and to our souls",
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   {
    "text": "A brave deception cherish.",
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   {
    "text": "So from unhappy war a man returns",
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   {
    "text": "Unfearing, or the seaman from the deep;",
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   {
    "text": "So from cool night and woodlands to a feast",
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   },
   {
    "text": "May someone enter, and still breathe of dews,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in her eyes still wear the dusky night.",
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