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    "text": "My wife and I, in one romantic cot,",
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    "text": "The world forgetting, by the world forgot,",
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    "text": "Or high as the gods upon Olympus dwell,",
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    "text": "Pleased with what things we have, and pleased as well",
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    "text": "She vows in ardour for a horse to trot;",
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    "text": "I stake my votive prayers upon a yacht.",
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    "text": "Which shall be first remembered, who can tell⁠—",
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    "text": "My wife or I?",
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    "text": "Harvests of flowers o’er all our garden plot,",
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    "text": "She dreams; and I to enrich a darker spot⁠—",
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    "text": "My unprovided cellar. Both to swell",
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    "text": "Our narrow cottage huge as a hotel,",
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    "text": "Where portly friends may come and share the lot",
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