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    "text": "Light as my heart was long ago,",
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    "text": "Now it is heavy enough;",
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    "text": "Now that the weather is rough,",
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    "text": "Winter is here with hail and snow,",
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    "text": "Winter is sorry and gruff.",
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    "text": "Light as last year’s snow,",
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    "text": "Where is my love? I do not know;",
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    "text": "Life is a pitiful stuff,",
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    "text": "Out with it⁠—out with the snuff!",
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    "text": "This is the sum of all I know,",
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    "text": "Light as my heart was long ago.",
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