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    "text": "Farewell!⁠—but thou wilt soon forget",
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   {
    "text": "The stranger thou hast seen,",
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    "text": "And in the gay and busy world,",
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    "text": "Forget that I have been.",
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    "text": "And thought of me will scarce intrude,",
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   {
    "text": "When other forms are nigh;",
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    "text": "Who, decked in beauty’s bright array,",
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    "text": "Shall pass before thine eye.",
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    "text": "Another’s lips will charm thee then,",
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    "text": "Another’s voice will praise;",
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   {
    "text": "Thou wilt forget we e’er have met",
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    "text": "In past and happy days.",
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    "text": "And thou wilt scarcely deign to think",
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    "text": "Of friendship’s early dream,",
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    "text": "Or cast one glance, in after years,",
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    "text": "On this poor offering.",
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    "text": "Farewell⁠—farewell!⁠—’twere better far",
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   {
    "text": "That we had never met,",
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   {
    "text": "Than meeting one brief moment here,",
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   {
    "text": "To part⁠—and then forget.",
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