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    "text": "I have no happiness in dreaming of Brycelinde,",
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    "text": "Nor Avalon the grass-green hollow, nor Joyous Isle,",
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    "text": "Where one found Lancelot crazed and hid him for a while;",
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    "text": "Land-under-Wave, where out of the moon’s light and the sun’s",
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    "text": "Seven old sisters wind the threads of the long-lived ones,",
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    "text": "Land-of-the-Tower, where Aengus has thrown the gates apart,",
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    "text": "And Wood-of-Wonders, where one kills an ox at dawn,",
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    "text": "To find it when night falls laid on a golden bier.",
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    "text": "Therein are many queens like Branwen and Guinivere;",
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    "text": "And Niamh and Laban and Fand, who could change to an otter or fawn,",
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    "text": "And the wood-woman, whose lover was changed to a blue-eyed hawk;",
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    "text": "And whether I go in my dreams by woodland, or dun, or shore,",
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    "text": "Or on the unpeopled waves with kings to pull at the oar,",
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    "text": "Because of something told under the famished horn",
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    "text": "Of the hunter’s moon, that hung between the night and the day,",
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    "text": "To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay,",
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