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    "text": "Where dips the rocky highland",
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    "text": "Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,",
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    "text": "Where the wave of moonlight glosses",
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    "text": "Far off by furthest Rosses",
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    "text": "We foot it all the night,",
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    "text": "Weaving olden dances,",
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    "text": "Mingling hands and mingling glances",
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    "text": "Till the moon has taken flight;",
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    "text": "Where the wandering water gushes",
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    "text": "From the hills above Glen-Car,",
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    "text": "In pools among the rushes",
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    "text": "That scarce could bathe a star,",
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    "text": "Away with us he’s going,",
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    "text": "The solemn-eyed:",
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    "text": "He’ll hear no more the lowing",
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    "text": "Of the calves on the warm hillside",
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