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    "text": "When my arms wrap you round I press",
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    "text": "My heart upon the loveliness",
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    "text": "The jewelled crowns that kings have hurled",
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    "text": "That has made fat the murderous moth;",
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    "text": "The roses that of old time were",
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    "text": "Woven by ladies in their hair,",
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    "text": "Through many a sacred corridor",
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    "text": "That only the gods’ eyes did not close:",
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    "text": "For that pale breast and lingering hand",
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    "text": "Come from a more dream-heavy land,",
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    "text": "And when you sigh from kiss to kiss",
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    "text": "I hear white Beauty sighing, too,",
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    "text": "All but the flames, and deep on deep,",
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    "text": "Throne over throne where in half sleep,",
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    "text": "Their swords upon their iron knees,",
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    "text": "Brood her high lonely mysteries.",
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