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    "text": "Of where or how, I nothing know;",
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    "text": "And why, I do not care;",
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    "text": "Enough if, even so,",
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    "text": "My travelling eyes, my travelling mind can go",
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    "text": "By flood and field and hill, by wood and meadow fair,",
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    "text": "Beside the Susquehannah and along the Delaware.",
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    "text": "I think, I hope, I dream no more",
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    "text": "The dreams of otherwhere,",
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    "text": "The cherished thoughts of yore;",
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    "text": "I have been changed from what I was before;",
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    "text": "And drunk too deep perchance the lotus of the air,",
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    "text": "Beside the Susquehannah and along the Delaware.",
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    "text": "Unweary, God me yet shall bring",
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    "text": "To lands of brighter air,",
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    "text": "Where I, now half a king,",
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    "text": "Shall with enfranchised spirit loudlier sing,",
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   {
    "text": "And wear a bolder front than that which now I wear",
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    "text": "Beside the Susquehannah and along the Delaware.",
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