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    "text": "You have been far, and I",
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    "text": "Been farther yet,",
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    "text": "Since last, in foul or fair",
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    "text": "An impecunious pair,",
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    "text": "Below this northern sky",
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    "text": "Of ours, we met.",
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    "text": "Now winter night shall see",
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    "text": "Again us two,",
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    "text": "While howls the tempest higher,",
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    "text": "Sit warmly by the fire",
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    "text": "And, hand in hand, at large",
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    "text": "Our thoughts shall walk",
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    "text": "While storm and gusty rain,",
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    "text": "Again and yet again,",
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    "text": "Shall drive their noisy charge",
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    "text": "Across the talk.",
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    "text": "The pleasant future still",
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    "text": "Shall smile to me,",
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    "text": "And hope with wooing hands",
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    "text": "Wave on to fairy lands",
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    "text": "All over dale and hill",
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    "text": "And earth and sea.",
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    "text": "And you who doubt the sky",
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    "text": "And fear the sun⁠—",
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    "text": "You⁠—Christian with the pack⁠—",
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    "text": "You shall not wander back",
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    "text": "For I am Hopeful⁠—I",
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    "text": "Will cheer you on.",
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    "text": "Come⁠—where the great have trod,",
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    "text": "The great shall lead⁠—",
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    "text": "Come, elbow through the press,",
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    "text": "Pluck Fortune by the dress⁠—",
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    "text": "By God, we must⁠—by God,",
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