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    "text": "The wind is without there and howls in the trees,",
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   {
    "text": "And the rain-flurries drum on the glass:",
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   {
    "text": "Alone by the fireside with elbows on knees",
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   {
    "text": "I can number the hours as they pass.",
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   {
    "text": "Yet now, when to cheer me the crickets begin,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And my pipe is just happily lit,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Believe me, my friend, though the evening draws in,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That not all uncontested I sit.",
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   {
    "text": "Alone, did I say? O no, nowise alone",
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   {
    "text": "With the Past sitting warm on my knee,",
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   {
    "text": "To gossip of days that are over and gone,",
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   {
    "text": "But still charming to her and to me.",
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   {
    "text": "With much to be glad of and much to deplore,",
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    "text": "Yet, as these days with those we compare,",
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   {
    "text": "Believe me, my friend, though the sorrows seem more",
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   {
    "text": "They are somehow more easy to bear.",
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   {
    "text": "And thou, faded Future, uncertain and frail,",
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   {
    "text": "As I cherish thy light in each draught,",
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   {
    "text": "His lamp is not more to the miner⁠—their sail",
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   {
    "text": "Is not more to the crew on the raft.",
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   {
    "text": "For Hope can make feeble ones earnest and brave,",
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   {
    "text": "And, as forth thro’ the years I look on,",
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   {
    "text": "Believe me, my friend, between this and the grave,",
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   {
    "text": "I see wonderful things to be done.",
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    "text": "To do or to try; and, believe me, my friend,",
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   {
    "text": "If the call should come early for me,",
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   {
    "text": "I can leave these foundations uprooted, and tend",
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   {
    "text": "For some new city over the sea.",
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   {
    "text": "To do or to try; and if failure be mine,",
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   {
    "text": "And if Fortune go cross to my plan,",
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   {
    "text": "Believe me, my friend, though I mourn the design",
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   {
    "text": "I shall never lament for the man.",
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