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    "text": "Was it the double of my dream",
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    "text": "The woman that by me lay",
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    "text": "I thought “there is a waterfall",
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    "text": "Cold stone and water. I grew wild",
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    "text": "I dreamed towards break of day,",
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    "text": "But she that beside me lay",
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    "text": "The marvellous stag of Arthur,",
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