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    "text": "Autumn is over the long leaves that love us,",
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    "text": "And over the mice in the barley sheaves;",
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    "text": "The hour of the waning of love has beset us,",
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    "text": "And weary and worn are our sad souls now;",
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    "text": "Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us,",
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    "text": "With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.",
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