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    "text": "Rivers and winds among the twisted hills,",
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    "text": "Hears, and his hearing slowly fills,",
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    "text": "As with heaped bees at hiving time",
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    "text": "The boughs are clotted, as (ere prime)",
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    "text": "Heaven swarms with stars, or the city street",
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    "text": "So swarmed my senses once, that now",
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    "text": "Repose behind my tranquil brow,",
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    "text": "Now only the vast shapes I hear⁠—",
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    "text": "Rivers and winds among the twisting hills,",
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    "text": "And hearken⁠—and my face is lit⁠—",
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