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    "text": "I am like one that for long days had sate,",
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   {
    "text": "With seaward eyes set keen against the gale,",
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    "text": "On some lone foreland, watching sail by sail,",
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    "text": "The portbound ships for one ship that was late;",
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    "text": "And sail by sail, his heart burned up with joy,",
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    "text": "And cruelly was quenched, until at last",
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    "text": "One ship, the looked-for pennant at its mast,",
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    "text": "Bore gaily, and dropt safely past the buoy;",
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    "text": "And lo! the loved one was not there⁠—was dead.",
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    "text": "Then would he watch no more; no more the sea",
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    "text": "With myriad vessels, sail by sail, perplex",
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    "text": "His eyes and mock his longing. Weary head,",
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    "text": "Take now thy rest; eyes, close; for no more me",
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    "text": "Shall hopes untried elate, or ruined vex.",
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    "text": "For thus on love I waited; thus for love",
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    "text": "Strained all my senses eagerly and long;",
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    "text": "Thus for her coming ever trimmed my song;",
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    "text": "Till in the far skies coloured as a dove,",
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    "text": "A bird gold-coloured flickered far and fled",
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    "text": "Over the pathless waterwaste for me;",
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    "text": "And with spread hands I watched the bright bird flee",
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    "text": "And waited, till before me she dropped dead.",
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    "text": "O golden bird in these dove-coloured skies",
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    "text": "How long I sought, how long with wearied eyes",
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   {
    "text": "I sought, O bird, the promise of thy flight!",
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   {
    "text": "And now the morn has dawned, the morn has died,",
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   {
    "text": "The day has come and gone; and once more night",
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    "text": "About my lone life settles, wild and wide.",
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