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 "poet": "Robert W. Service",
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    "text": "The waves have a story to tell me,",
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    "text": "As I lie on the lonely beach;",
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    "text": "Chanting aloft in the pine-tops,",
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    "text": "But the stars sing an anthem of glory",
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    "text": "I cannot put into speech.",
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    "text": "The waves tell of ocean spaces,",
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    "text": "Of hearts that are wild and brave,",
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    "text": "Of populous city places,",
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    "text": "Of desolate shores they lave;",
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    "text": "Of men who sally in quest of gold",
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    "text": "To sink in an ocean grave.",
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    "text": "The wind is a mighty roamer;",
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    "text": "He bids me keep me free,",
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    "text": "Clean from the taint of the gold-lust,",
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    "text": "Cling with my love to nature",
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    "text": "But the stars throng out in their glory,",
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    "text": "And they sing of the God in man;",
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    "text": "They sing of the mighty Master,",
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    "text": "Of the loom His fingers span;",
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    "text": "Where a star or a soul is a part of the whole,",
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    "text": "Here by the campfire’s flicker,",
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    "text": "I long for the peace of the pine-gloom",
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    "text": "When the scroll of the Lord is unfurled,",
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    "text": "And the wind and the wave are silent,",
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    "text": "And world is singing to world.",
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