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    "text": "Smooth it slides upon its travel,",
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    "text": "Here a wimple, there a gleam⁠—",
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    "text": "O the clean gravel!",
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    "text": "Sailing blossoms, silver fishes,",
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    "text": "Paven pools as clear as air⁠—",
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    "text": "How a child wishes",
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    "text": "We can see our coloured faces",
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    "text": "Floating on the shaken pool",
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    "text": "Down in cool places,",
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    "text": "Till a wind or water wrinkle,",
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    "text": "Dipping marten, plumping trout,",
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    "text": "Spreads in a twinkle",
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    "text": "See the rings pursue each other;",
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    "text": "All below grows black as night,",
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    "text": "Patience, children, just a minute⁠—",
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    "text": "See the spreading circles die;",
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    "text": "The stream and all in it",
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