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    "text": "My body which my dungeon is,",
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   {
    "text": "And yet my parks and palaces:⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Which is so great that there I go",
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    "text": "All the day long to and fro,",
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   {
    "text": "And when the night begins to fall",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Throw down my bed and sleep, while all",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The building hums with wakefulness⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Even as a child of savages",
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    "text": "When evening takes her on her way",
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    "text": "(She having roamed a summer’s day",
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   {
    "text": "Along the mountain-sides and scalp),",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sleeps in an antre of that alp:⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which is so broad and high that there,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As in the topless fields of air,",
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   {
    "text": "My fancy soars like to a kite",
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    "text": "And faints in the blue infinite:⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Which is so strong, my strongest throes",
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   {
    "text": "And the rough world’s besieging blows",
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   {
    "text": "Not break it, and so weak withal,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Death ebbs and flows in its loose wall",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As the green sea in fishers’ nets,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And tops its topmost parapets:⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which is so wholly mine that I",
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   {
    "text": "Can wield its whole artillery,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And mine so little, that my soul",
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   {
    "text": "Dwells in perpetual control,",
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   {
    "text": "And I but think and speak and do",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As my dead fathers move me to:⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "If this born body of my bones",
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    "text": "The beggared soul so barely owns,",
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    "text": "What money passed from hand to hand,",
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   {
    "text": "What creeping custom of the land,",
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   {
    "text": "What deed of author or assign,",
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   {
    "text": "Can make a house a thing of mine?",
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