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 "title": "One Hour to Madness and Joy",
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    "text": "One hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(What is this that frees me so in storms?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O savage and tender achings! (I bequeath them to you, my children,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)",
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   {
    "text": "O to be yielded to you whoever you are, and you to be yielded to me in defiance of the world!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O to return to Paradise! O bashful and feminine!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O to draw you to me, to plant on you for the first time the lips of a determin’d man.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O the puzzle, the thrice-tied knot, the deep and dark pool, all untied and illumin’d!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!",
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   {
    "text": "To be absolv’d from previous ties and conventions, I from mine and you from yours!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To find a new unthought-of nonchalance with the best of Nature!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To have the gag remov’d from one’s mouth!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To have the feeling to-day or any day I am sufficient as I am.",
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   {
    "text": "O something unprov’d! something in a trance!",
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   {
    "text": "To escape utterly from others’ anchors and holds!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To drive free! to love free! to dash reckless and dangerous!",
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   },
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    "text": "To court destruction with taunts, with invitations!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To ascend, to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To rise thither with my inebriate soul!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To be lost if it must be so!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom!",
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    "text": "With one brief hour of madness and joy.",
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