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    "text": "Through the soft evening air enwinding all,",
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    "text": "Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds,",
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    "text": "In dulcet streams, in flutes’ and cornets’ notes,",
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    "text": "Electric, pensive, turbulent, artificial,",
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   {
    "text": "(Yet strangely fitting even here, meanings unknown before,",
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   {
    "text": "Subtler than ever, more harmony, as if born here, related here,",
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    "text": "Not to the city’s fresco’d rooms, not to the audience of the opera house,",
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    "text": "Sounds, echoes, wandering strains, as really here at home,",
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    "text": "Sonnambula’s innocent love, trios with Norma’s anguish,",
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   {
    "text": "And thy ecstatic chorus Poliuto;)",
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    "text": "Ray’d in the limpid yellow slanting sundown,",
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    "text": "Music, Italian music in Dakota.",
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    "text": "While Nature, sovereign of this gnarl’d realm,",
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    "text": "Lurking in hidden barbaric grim recesses,",
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    "text": "Acknowledging rapport however far remov’d,",
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    "text": "(As some old root or soil of earth its last-born flower or fruit,)",
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    "text": "Listens well pleas’d.",
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