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    "text": "You and I, in the sere, brown weather,",
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   {
    "text": "When clouds hang thick in the frowning sky,",
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   {
    "text": "When rain-tears drip on the bloomless heather,",
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   {
    "text": "Unheeding the storm-blasts will walk together,",
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   {
    "text": "And look to each other⁠—You and I.",
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    "text": "You and I, when the clouds are shriven",
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    "text": "To show the cliff-broods of lightnings high;",
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   {
    "text": "When over the ramparts, swift, thunder-driven,",
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   {
    "text": "Rush the bolts of Hate from a Hell-lit Heaven,",
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    "text": "Will smile at each other⁠—You and I.",
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    "text": "You and I, when the bolts are falling,",
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   {
    "text": "The hot air torn with the earth’s wild cries,",
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    "text": "Will lean through the darkness where Death is calling,",
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   {
    "text": "Will search through the shadows where Night is palling,",
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   {
    "text": "And find the light in each other’s eyes.",
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    "text": "You and I, when black sheets of water",
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   {
    "text": "Drench and tear us and drown our breath,",
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   {
    "text": "Below this laughter of Hell’s own daughter,",
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   {
    "text": "Above the smoke of the storm-girt slaughter,",
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   {
    "text": "Will hear each other and gleam at Death.",
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    "text": "You and I, in the gray night dying,",
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   {
    "text": "When over the east-land the dawn-beams fly,",
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   {
    "text": "Down in the groans, in the low, faint crying,",
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   {
    "text": "Down where the thick blood is blackly lying,",
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   {
    "text": "Will reach out our weak arms, You and I.",
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    "text": "You and I, in the cold, white weather,",
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   {
    "text": "When over our corpses the pale lights lie,",
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   {
    "text": "Will rest at last from the dread endeavor,",
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   {
    "text": "Pressed to each other, for parting⁠—never!",
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   {
    "text": "Our dead lips together, You and I.",
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   {
    "text": "You and I, when the years in flowing",
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   {
    "text": "Have left us behind with all things that die,",
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   {
    "text": "With the rot of our bones shall give soil for growing",
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   {
    "text": "The loves of the Future, made sweet for blowing",
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   {
    "text": "By the dew of the kiss of a last good-bye!",
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