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    "text": "I will make you brooches and toys for your delight",
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   {
    "text": "Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.",
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    "text": "I will make a palace fit for you and me",
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    "text": "Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.",
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    "text": "I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room,",
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   {
    "text": "Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom,",
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    "text": "And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white",
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    "text": "And this shall be for music when no one else is near,",
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    "text": "The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!",
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    "text": "That only I remember, that only you admire,",
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   {
    "text": "Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.",
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