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    "text": "Thou strainest through the mountain fern,",
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   {
    "text": "A most exiguously thin",
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    "text": "For all thy foam, for all thy din,",
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    "text": "Thee shall the pallid lake inurn,",
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    "text": "With well-a-day for Mr. Swin-",
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    "text": "Burne!",
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    "text": "Take then this quarto in thy fin",
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    "text": "And, O thou stoker huge and stern,",
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    "text": "The whole affair, outside and in,",
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    "text": "Burn!",
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    "text": "But save the true poetic kin,",
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    "text": "The works of Mr. Robert Burn’",
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    "text": "And William Wordsworth upon Tin-",
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