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    "text": "Cumhal called out, bending his head,",
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    "text": "Till Dathi came and stood,",
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    "text": "With a blink in his eyes at the cave mouth,",
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    "text": "And Cumhal said, bending his knees,",
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    "text": "“I can bring you salmon out of the streams",
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    "text": "And Cumhal saw like a drifting smoke",
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    "text": "“Praise God and God’s mother,” Dathi said,",
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    "text": "“And which is the blessedest,” Cumhal said,",
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    "text": "“My eyes are blinking,” Dathi said,",
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    "text": "“With the secrets of God half blind,",
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    "text": "But I can see where the wind goes",
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    "text": "“And blessedness goes where the wind goes,",
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    "text": "I see the blessedest soul in the world",
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    "text": "“O blessedness comes in the night and the day",
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    "text": "And whither the wise heart knows;",
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    "text": "And one has seen in the redness of wine",
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    "text": "While time and the world are ebbing away",
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