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    "text": "Yet, O stricken heart, remember, O remember",
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    "text": "How of human days he lived the better part.",
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    "text": "April came to bloom and never dim December",
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    "text": "Breathed its killing chills upon the head or heart.",
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    "text": "Doomed to know not Winter, only Spring, a being",
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    "text": "Trod the flowery April blithely for a while,",
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    "text": "Took his fill of music, joy of thought and seeing,",
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    "text": "Came and stayed and went, and now when all is finished,",
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    "text": "You alone have crossed the melancholy stream,",
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    "text": "Yours the pang, but his, O his, the undiminished",
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    "text": "Undecaying gladness, undeparted dream.",
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    "text": "All that life contains of torture, toil, and treason,",
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    "text": "Here, a boy, he dwelt through all the singing season,",
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