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    "text": "I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,",
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    "text": "And now my heart is sore.",
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    "text": "All’s changed since I, hearing at twilight,",
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    "text": "The first time on this shore,",
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    "text": "Unwearied still, lover by lover,",
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    "text": "They paddle in the cold,",
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    "text": "Companionable streams or climb the air;",
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    "text": "Their hearts have not grown old;",
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    "text": "But now they drift on the still water",
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    "text": "Delight men’s eyes, when I awake some day",
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