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    "text": "The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows",
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    "text": "Have pulled the Immortal Rose;",
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    "text": "And though the Seven Lights bowed in their dance and wept,",
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    "text": "The Polar Dragon slept,",
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    "text": "His heavy rings uncoiled from glimmering deep to deep:",
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    "text": "Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,",
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    "text": "With your harmonious choir",
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    "text": "Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,",
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    "text": "That my old care may cease;",
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    "text": "Unfold your flaming wings and cover out of sight",
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    "text": "Dim Powers of drowsy thought, let her no longer be",
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    "text": "Like the pale cup of the sea,",
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