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    "text": "On the grey rock of Cashel the mind’s eye",
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    "text": "The particular is pounded till it is man,",
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    "text": "Constrained, arraigned, baffled, bent and unbent",
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    "text": "On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw",
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    "text": "Although I saw it all in the mind’s eye",
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    "text": "Now at its fifteenth night.",
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    "text": "One lashed her tail; her eyes lit by the moon",
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    "text": "That other’s moonlit eyeballs never moved,",
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    "text": "Oh, little did they care who danced between,",
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    "text": "And little she by whom her dance was seen",
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    "text": "So that she danced. No thought,",
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    "text": "For what but eye and ear silence the mind",
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    "text": "With the minute particulars of mankind?",
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    "text": "In contemplation had those three so wrought",
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    "text": "Upon a moment, and so stretched it out",
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    "text": "I knew that I had seen, had seen at last",
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    "text": "That girl my unremembering nights hold fast",
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    "text": "Or else my dreams that fly,",
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    "text": "If I should rub an eye,",
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    "text": "And yet in flying fling into my meat",
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    "text": "By Homer’s Paragon",
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    "text": "Who never gave the burning town a thought;",
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    "text": "To such a pitch of folly I am brought,",
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    "text": "The commonness of thought and images",
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    "text": "That have the frenzy of our Western seas.",
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    "text": "Thereon I made my moan,",
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    "text": "And after kissed a stone,",
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    "text": "And after that arranged it in a song",
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    "text": "Seeing that I, ignorant for so long,",
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    "text": "Had been rewarded thus",
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    "text": "In Cormac’s ruined house.",
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