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    "text": "O lady fair and sweet",
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    "text": "There let us turn our feet",
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    "text": "O lady fair and sweet⁠—",
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    "text": "Far from the noisy street,",
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    "text": "The summer swallows meet,",
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    "text": "O lady fair and sweet,",
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    "text": "For here the loud winds blow,",
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