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    "text": "She is foremost of those that I would hear praised.",
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    "text": "I have gone about the house, gone up and down",
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    "text": "Or a young girl dressed out in her new gown,",
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    "text": "And though I have turned the talk by hook or crook",
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    "text": "Until her praise should be the uppermost theme,",
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    "text": "A woman spoke of some new tale she had read,",
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    "text": "As though some other name ran in his head.",
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    "text": "She is foremost of those that I would hear praised.",
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    "text": "I will talk no more of books or the long war",
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    "text": "But walk by the dry thorn until I have found",
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    "text": "Some beggar sheltering from the wind, and there",
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