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    "text": "At evening when the lamp is lit,",
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    "text": "Around the fire my parents sit;",
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    "text": "Now, with my little gun, I crawl",
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    "text": "All in the dark along the wall,",
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    "text": "And follow round the forest track",
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    "text": "There, in the night, where none can spy,",
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    "text": "All in my hunter’s camp I lie,",
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    "text": "And play at books that I have read",
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    "text": "These are the hills, these are the woods,",
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    "text": "These are my starry solitudes;",
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    "text": "And there the river by whose brink",
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    "text": "I see the others far away",
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    "text": "As if in firelit camp they lay,",
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    "text": "And I, like to an Indian scout,",
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    "text": "Around their party prowled about",
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    "text": "So, when my nurse comes in for me,",
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    "text": "Home I return across the sea,",
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    "text": "At my dear land of Story-books.",
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