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    "text": "Nay, but I fancy somehow, year by year",
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    "text": "The hard road waxing easier to my feet;",
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    "text": "Nay, but I fancy as the seasons fleet",
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   {
    "text": "I shall grow ever dearer to my dear.",
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    "text": "Hope is so strong that it has conquered fear;",
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    "text": "Love follows, crowned and glad for fear’s defeat.",
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    "text": "Down the long future I behold us, sweet,",
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    "text": "Pass, and grow ever dearer and more near;",
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    "text": "Pass and go onward into that mild land",
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    "text": "Where the blond harvests slumber all the noon,",
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    "text": "And the pale sky bends downward to the sea;",
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    "text": "Pass, and go forward, ever hand in hand,",
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    "text": "Till all the plain be quickened with the moon,",
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    "text": "And the lit windows beckon o’er the lea.",
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