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 "title": "Let Beauty Awake in the Morn from Beautiful Dreams",
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    "text": "Let Beauty awake in the morn from beautiful dreams,",
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   {
    "text": "Beauty awake from rest!",
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   {
    "text": "Let Beauty awake",
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   {
    "text": "For Beauty’s sake",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the hour when the birds awake in the brake",
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   {
    "text": "And the stars are bright in the west!",
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   {
    "text": "Let Beauty awake in the eve from the slumber of day,",
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   {
    "text": "Awake in the crimson eve!",
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   {
    "text": "In the day’s dusk end",
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   {
    "text": "When the shades ascend,",
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   {
    "text": "Let her wake to the kiss of a tender friend",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To render again and receive!",
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