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    "text": "When the golden day is done,",
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    "text": "Through the closing portal,",
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    "text": "Child and garden, flower and sun,",
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    "text": "As the blinding shadows fall,",
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    "text": "Under evening’s cloak, they all",
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    "text": "Garden darkened, daisy shut,",
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    "text": "Child in bed, they slumber⁠—",
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    "text": "Glow-worm in the highway rut,",
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    "text": "Mice among the lumber.",
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    "text": "In the darkness houses shine,",
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    "text": "Parents move with candles;",
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    "text": "Till on all the night divine",
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    "text": "Till at last the day begins",
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    "text": "In the east a-breaking,",
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    "text": "In the darkness shapes of things,",
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    "text": "Houses, trees, and hedges,",
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    "text": "Clearer grow; and sparrows’ wings",
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    "text": "These shall wake the yawning maid;",
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    "text": "She the door shall open⁠—",
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    "text": "Finding dew on garden glade",
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    "text": "And the morning broken.",
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    "text": "There my garden grows again",
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    "text": "Green and rosy painted,",
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    "text": "As at eve behind the pane",
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    "text": "From my eyes it fainted.",
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    "text": "Just as it was shut away,",
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    "text": "Toy-like, in the even,",
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    "text": "Here I see it glow with day",
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    "text": "Every path and every plot,",
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    "text": "Every bush of roses,",
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    "text": "Every blue forget-me-not",
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    "text": "Where the dew reposes,",
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    "text": "“Up!” they cry, “the day is come",
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    "text": "On the smiling valleys:",
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    "text": "We have beat the morning drum;",
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    "text": "Playmate, join your allies!”",
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