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    "text": "To all that love the far and blue:",
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    "text": "Whether, from dawn to eve, on foot",
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    "text": "The fleeing corners ye pursue,",
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    "text": "Nor weary of the vain pursuit;",
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   {
    "text": "Or whether down the singing stream,",
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   {
    "text": "Paddle in hand, jocund ye shoot,",
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   {
    "text": "To splash beside the splashing bream",
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   {
    "text": "Or anchor by the willow root:",
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    "text": "Or, bolder, from the narrow shore",
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    "text": "Put forth, that cedar ark to steer,",
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    "text": "Among the seabirds and the roar",
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    "text": "Of the great sea, profound and clear;",
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    "text": "Or, lastly if in heart ye roam,",
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    "text": "Not caring to do else, and hear,",
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    "text": "Safe sitting by the fire at home,",
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   {
    "text": "Footfalls in Utah or Pamere:",
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    "text": "Though long the way, though hard to bear",
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   {
    "text": "The sun and rain, the dust and dew;",
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    "text": "Though still attainment and despair",
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    "text": "Inter the old, despoil the new;",
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   {
    "text": "There shall at length, be sure, O friends,",
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   {
    "text": "Howe’er ye steer, whate’er ye do⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "At length, and at the end of ends,",
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   {
    "text": "The golden city come in view.",
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