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    "text": "The first pine to the second said:",
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    "text": "“My leaves are black, my branches red;",
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    "text": "I stand upon this moor of mine,",
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    "text": "The second sniffed and answered: “Pooh,",
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    "text": "I am as good a pine as you.”",
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    "text": "“Discourteous tree” the first replied,",
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    "text": "“The tempest in my boughs had cried,",
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    "text": "The hunter slumbered in my shade,",
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    "text": "A hundred years ere you were made.”",
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    "text": "The second smiled as he returned:",
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    "text": "“I shall be here when you are burned.”",
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    "text": "So far dissension ruled the pair,",
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    "text": "Each turned on each a frowning air,",
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    "text": "When flickering from the bank anigh,",
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    "text": "A flight of martens met their eye.",
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    "text": "Sometime their course they watched; and then",
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