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    "text": "A lover of the moorland bare",
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    "text": "And honest country winds you were;",
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    "text": "The silver-skimming rain you took;",
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    "text": "And love the floodings of the brook,",
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    "text": "Dew, frost and mountains, fire and seas,",
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    "text": "Tumultuary silences,",
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    "text": "Winds that in darkness fifed a tune,",
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    "text": "And the high-riding, virgin moon.",
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    "text": "And as the berry, pale and sharp,",
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    "text": "Springs on some ditch’s counterscarp",
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    "text": "In our ungenial, native north⁠—",
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    "text": "You put your frosted wildings forth,",
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    "text": "And on the heath, afar from man,",
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    "text": "A strong and bitter virgin ran.",
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    "text": "The berry ripened keeps the rude",
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    "text": "And racy flavour of the wood.",
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    "text": "And you that loved the empty plain",
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    "text": "All redolent of wind and rain,",
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    "text": "Around you still the curlew sings⁠—",
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    "text": "The freshness of the weather clings⁠—",
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    "text": "The maiden jewels of the rain",
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    "text": "Sit in your dabbled locks again.",
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