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    "text": "Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?",
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   {
    "text": "For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,",
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    "text": "Mournful that no new wonder may betide,",
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    "text": "Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,",
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    "text": "And Usna’s children died.",
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    "text": "We and the labouring world are passing by:",
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    "text": "Amid men’s souls, that waver and give place,",
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    "text": "Like the pale waters in their wintry race,",
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    "text": "Under the passing stars, foam of the sky,",
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   {
    "text": "Lives on this lonely face.",
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   {
    "text": "Bow down, archangels, in your dim abode:",
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   {
    "text": "Before you were, or any hearts to beat,",
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   {
    "text": "Weary and kind one lingered by His seat;",
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   {
    "text": "He made the world to be a grassy road",
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