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    "text": "A naked house, a naked moor,",
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    "text": "And poplars at the garden foot:",
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    "text": "Such is the place that I live in,",
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    "text": "Bleak without and bare within.",
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    "text": "Yet shall your ragged moor receive",
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    "text": "The incomparable pomp of eve,",
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    "text": "And the cold glories of the dawn",
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    "text": "Behind your shivering trees be drawn;",
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    "text": "And when the wind from place to place",
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    "text": "Doth the unmoored cloud-galleons chase,",
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    "text": "Your garden gloom and gleam again,",
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    "text": "With leaping sun, with glancing rain.",
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    "text": "Here shall the wizard moon ascend",
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    "text": "The heavens, in the crimson end",
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    "text": "Of day’s declining splendour; here",
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    "text": "The army of the stars appear.",
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    "text": "The neighbour hollows, dry or wet,",
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    "text": "Spring shall with tender flowers beset;",
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    "text": "And oft the morning muser see",
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    "text": "Larks rising from the broomy lea,",
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    "text": "And every fairy wheel and thread",
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    "text": "Of cobweb, dew-bediamonded.",
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    "text": "When daisies go, shall winter-time",
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    "text": "Silver the simple grass with rime;",
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    "text": "Autumnal frosts enchant the pool",
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    "text": "And make the cart-ruts beautiful;",
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    "text": "And when snow-bright the moor expands,",
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   {
    "text": "How shall your children clap their hands!",
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    "text": "To make this earth, our hermitage,",
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    "text": "A cheerful and a changeful page,",
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    "text": "God’s bright and intricate device",
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