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    "text": "Come praise Colonus’ horses and come praise",
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    "text": "The wine dark of the wood’s intricacies,",
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    "text": "Semele’s lad a gay companion.",
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    "text": "And yonder in the gymnasts’ garden thrives",
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    "text": "Athenian intellect its mastery,",
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    "text": "Even the grey-leaved olive tree",
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    "text": "Shall wither that old marvel, for",
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    "text": "Who comes into this country, and has come",
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    "text": "Where golden crocus and narcissus bloom,",
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    "text": "And beauty-drunken by the water",
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    "text": "Glittering among grey-leaved olive trees,",
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    "text": "Has plucked a flower and sung her loss;",
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    "text": "Who finds abounding Cephisus",
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    "text": "But trod the road, or paddled by the shore,",
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    "text": "Poseidon gave it bit and oar,",
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    "text": "Of that oar and of that bit;",
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    "text": "Summer and winter, day and night,",
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    "text": "Of horses and horses of the sea, white horses.",
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