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    "text": "When you are old and grey and full of sleep,",
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    "text": "And nodding by the fire, take down this book,",
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    "text": "And slowly read; and dream of the soft look",
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    "text": "Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;",
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    "text": "How many loved your moments of glad grace,",
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    "text": "And loved your beauty with love false or true,",
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    "text": "But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,",
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    "text": "And loved the sorrows of your changing face;",
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    "text": "And bending down beside the glowing bars",
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    "text": "Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled",
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    "text": "And paced upon the mountains overhead",
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    "text": "And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.",
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