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 "title": "To Minnie",
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    "text": "A picture-frame for you to fill,",
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    "text": "A paltry setting for your face,",
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    "text": "A thing that has no worth until",
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    "text": "You lend it something of your grace,",
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    "text": "I send (unhappy I that sing",
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    "text": "Laid by a while upon the shelf)",
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    "text": "Because I would not send a thing",
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    "text": "Less charming than you are yourself.",
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    "text": "And happier than I, alas!",
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    "text": "(Dumb thing, I envy its delight)",
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    "text": "’Twill wish you well, the looking-glass,",
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    "text": "And look you in the face tonight.",
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