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    "text": "On the gorgeous hills of morning",
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    "text": "A sudden piping of birds,",
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    "text": "A piping of all the forest, high and merry and clear,",
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    "text": "I lay in my tent and listened;",
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    "text": "I lay and heard them long,",
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    "text": "In the dark of the moonlit morning,",
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    "text": "The birds of the night at song.",
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    "text": "I lay and listened and heard them",
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    "text": "Sing ere the day was begun;",
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    "text": "Sing and sink into",
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    "text": "Silence one by one.",
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    "text": "I lay in my bed and looked⁠—",
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    "text": "Paler than starlight or lightning",
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    "text": "A glimmer⁠ ⁠…",
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    "text": "In the highlands in the country places",
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    "text": "Where the old plain men have rosy faces,",
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    "text": "And the young fair lasses",
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    "text": "Quiet eyes,",
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    "text": "Light and heat begin, begin and strengthen,",
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    "text": "And the shadows turn and shrink and lengthen,",
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    "text": "As the great sun passes in the skies.",
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    "text": "Life and death go by with heedful faces⁠—",
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    "text": "Mock with silent steps these empty places.",
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