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   {
    "text": "In Schnee der Alpen⁠—so it runs",
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   {
    "text": "To those divine accords⁠—and here",
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   {
    "text": "We dwell in Alpine snows and suns,",
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   {
    "text": "A motley crew, for half the year:",
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   {
    "text": "A motley crew, we dwell to taste⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "A shivering band in hope and fear⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "That sun upon the snowy waste,",
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    "text": "That Alpine ether cold and clear.",
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   {
    "text": "Up from the laboured plains, and up",
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   {
    "text": "From low sea-levels, we arise",
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    "text": "To drink of that diviner cup",
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   {
    "text": "The rarer air, the clearer skies;",
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   {
    "text": "For, as the great, old, godly King",
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   {
    "text": "From mankind’s turbid valley cries,",
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    "text": "So all we mountain-lovers sing:",
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    "text": "I to the hills will lift mine eyes.",
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    "text": "The bells that ring, the peaks that climb,",
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   {
    "text": "The frozen snow’s unbroken curd",
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    "text": "Might yet revindicate in rhyme",
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    "text": "The pauseless stream, the absent bird.",
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    "text": "In vain⁠—for to the deeps of life",
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   {
    "text": "You, lady, you my heart have stirred;",
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   {
    "text": "And since you say you love my life,",
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    "text": "Be sure I love you for the word.",
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    "text": "Of kindness, here I nothing say⁠—",
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    "text": "Such loveless kindnesses there are",
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   {
    "text": "In that grimacing, common way,",
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   {
    "text": "That old, unhonoured social war.",
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   {
    "text": "Love but my dog and love my love,",
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    "text": "Adore with me a common star⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "I value not the rest above",
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   {
    "text": "The ashes of a bad cigar.",
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