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    "text": "Over the borders, a sin without pardon,",
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    "text": "Breaking the branches and crawling below,",
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    "text": "Out through the breach in the wall of the garden,",
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    "text": "Here is the mill with the humming of thunder,",
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    "text": "Here is the weir with the wonder of foam,",
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    "text": "Here is the sluice with the race running under⁠—",
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    "text": "Marvellous places, though handy to home!",
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    "text": "Sounds of the village grow stiller and stiller,",
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    "text": "Stiller the note of the birds on the hill;",
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    "text": "Dusty and dim are the eyes of the miller,",
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    "text": "Deaf are his ears with the moil of the mill.",
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    "text": "Years may go by, and the wheel in the river,",
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    "text": "Wheel as it wheels for us, children, today,",
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    "text": "Wheel and keep roaring and foaming forever,",
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    "text": "Home from the Indies, and home from the ocean,",
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    "text": "Heroes and soldiers we all shall come home;",
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    "text": "Still we shall find the old mill-wheel in motion,",
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    "text": "Turning and churning that river to foam.",
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    "text": "You with the bean that I gave when we quarrelled,",
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    "text": "Honoured and old and all gaily apparelled,",
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