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   {
    "text": "Great silent heart! These barren drops of grief",
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   {
    "text": "Are not for you, attained unto your rest;",
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   {
    "text": "This sterile salt upon the withered leaf",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of love, is mine⁠—mine the dark burial guest.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Far, far within that deep, untroubled sea",
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   {
    "text": "We watched together, walking on the sands,",
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   {
    "text": "Your soul has melted⁠—painless, silent, free;",
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   {
    "text": "Mine the wrung heart, mine the clasped, useless hands.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Into the whirl of life, where none remember,",
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   {
    "text": "I bear your image, ever unforgot;",
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   {
    "text": "The “Whip-poor-will,” still “wailing in December,”",
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   {
    "text": "Cries the same cry⁠—cries, cries, and ceases not.",
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    "text": "The future years with all their waves of faces",
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   {
    "text": "Roll shoreward singing the great undertone;",
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   {
    "text": "Yours is not there;⁠—in the old, well-loved places",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I look, and pass, and watch the sea alone.",
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  ],
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    "text": "Alone along the gleaming, white sea-shore,",
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   {
    "text": "The sea-spume spraying thick around my head,",
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   {
    "text": "Through all the beat of waves and winds that roar,",
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   {
    "text": "I go, remembering that you are dead.",
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    "text": "That you are dead, and nowhere is there one",
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   {
    "text": "Like unto you;⁠—and nowhere Love leaps Death;⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "And nowhere may the broken race be run;⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Nowhere unsealed the seal that none gainsaith.",
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   {
    "text": "Yet in my ear that deep, sweet undertone",
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    "text": "Grows deeper, sweeter, solemner to me⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Dreaming your dreams, watching the light that shone",
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   {
    "text": "So whitely to you, yonder, on the sea.",
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   {
    "text": "Your voice is there, there in the great life-sound⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Your eyes are there, out there, within the light;",
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   {
    "text": "Your heart, within the pulsing Race-heart drowned,",
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   {
    "text": "Beats in the immortality of Right.",
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   {
    "text": "O Life, I love you for the love of him",
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   {
    "text": "Who showed me all your glory and your pain!",
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   {
    "text": "“Unto Nirvana”⁠—so the deep tones sing⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And there⁠—and there⁠—we⁠—shall⁠—be⁠—one⁠—again.",
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