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    "text": "I should like to rise and go",
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   {
    "text": "Where the golden apples grow;⁠—",
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    "text": "Where below another sky",
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    "text": "Parrot islands anchored lie,",
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    "text": "And, watched by cockatoos and goats,",
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    "text": "Lonely Crusoes building boats;⁠—",
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    "text": "Where in sunshine reaching out",
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    "text": "Eastern cities, miles about,",
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    "text": "Are with mosque and minaret",
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    "text": "Among sandy gardens set,",
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    "text": "And the rich goods from near and far",
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    "text": "Hang for sale in the bazaar;⁠—",
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    "text": "Where the Great Wall round China goes,",
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    "text": "And on one side the desert blows,",
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    "text": "And with bell and voice and drum,",
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    "text": "Cities on the other hum;⁠—",
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    "text": "Where are forests, hot as fire,",
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    "text": "Wide as England, tall as a spire,",
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    "text": "Full of apes and coconuts",
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    "text": "And the negro hunters’ huts;⁠—",
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    "text": "Where the knotty crocodile",
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   {
    "text": "Lies and blinks in the Nile,",
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    "text": "And the red flamingo flies",
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    "text": "Hunting fish before his eyes;⁠—",
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    "text": "Where in jungles, near and far,",
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    "text": "Man-devouring tigers are,",
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    "text": "Lying close and giving ear",
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    "text": "Lest the hunt be drawing near,",
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    "text": "Or a comer-by be seen",
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    "text": "Swinging in a palanquin;⁠—",
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    "text": "Where among the desert sands",
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    "text": "Some deserted city stands,",
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    "text": "All its children, sweep and prince,",
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    "text": "Grown to manhood ages since,",
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    "text": "Not a foot in street or house,",
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    "text": "Nor a stir of child or mouse,",
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    "text": "And when kindly falls the night,",
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    "text": "In all the town no spark of light.",
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    "text": "There I’ll come when I’m a man",
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    "text": "With a camel caravan;",
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    "text": "Light a fire in the gloom",
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    "text": "Of some dusty dining-room;",
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    "text": "See the pictures on the walls,",
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    "text": "Heroes, fights, and festivals;",
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    "text": "And in a corner find the toys",
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    "text": "Of the old Egyptian boys.",
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