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    "text": "In paths untrodden,",
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    "text": "In the growth by margins of pond-waters,",
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    "text": "From all the standards hitherto publish’d, from the pleasures, profits, conformities,",
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    "text": "Which too long I was offering to feed my soul,",
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    "text": "Clear to me now standards not yet publish’d, clear to me that my soul,",
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    "text": "Tallying and talk’d to here by tongues aromatic,",
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    "text": "No longer abash’d, (for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,)",
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    "text": "Strong upon me the life that does not exhibit itself, yet contains all the rest,",
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    "text": "Resolv’d to sing no songs to-day but those of manly attachment,",
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    "text": "Afternoon this delicious Ninth-month in my forty-first year,",
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