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    "text": "“Your eyes that once were never weary of mine",
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   {
    "text": "Are bowed in sorrow under their trembling lids,",
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    "text": "Because our love is waning.”",
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    "text": "And then she:",
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    "text": "“Although our love is waning, let us stand",
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    "text": "By the lone border of the lake once more,",
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    "text": "Together in that hour of gentleness",
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    "text": "When the poor tired child, Passion, falls asleep:",
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   {
    "text": "How far away the stars seem, and how far",
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   {
    "text": "Is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart!”",
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    "text": "Pensive they paced along the faded leaves,",
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   {
    "text": "While slowly he whose hand held hers replied:",
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   {
    "text": "“Passion has often worn our wandering hearts.”",
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    "text": "The woods were round them, and the yellow leaves",
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    "text": "Fell like faint meteors in the gloom, and once",
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   {
    "text": "A rabbit old and lame limped down the path;",
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    "text": "Autumn was over him: and now they stood",
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    "text": "On the lone border of the lake once more:",
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    "text": "Turning, he saw that she had thrust dead leaves",
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    "text": "Gathered in silence, dewy as her eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "In bosom and hair. “Ah, do not mourn,” he said,",
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    "text": "“That we are tired, for other loves await us;",
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    "text": "Hate on and love through unrepining hours.",
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    "text": "Before us lies eternity; our souls",
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    "text": "Are love, and a continual farewell.”",
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