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    "text": "Night on the prairies,",
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    "text": "The supper is over, the fire on the ground burns low,",
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    "text": "The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt in their blankets;",
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    "text": "I walk by myself⁠—I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never realized before.",
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    "text": "Now I absorb immortality and peace,",
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    "text": "How plenteous! how spiritual! how résumé!",
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    "text": "I was thinking the day most splendid till I saw what the not-day exhibited,",
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    "text": "Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will measure myself by them,",
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    "text": "And now touch’d with the lives of other globes arrived as far along as those of the earth,",
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    "text": "Or waiting to arrive, or pass’d on farther than those of the earth,",
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    "text": "I henceforth no more ignore them than I ignore my own life,",
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    "text": "O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me, as the day cannot,",
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