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 "title": "The Dalliance of the Eagles",
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  "year": 1881,
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)",
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    "text": "Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,",
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    "text": "The rushing amorous contact high in space together,",
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    "text": "The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,",
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    "text": "Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,",
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   {
    "text": "In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,",
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    "text": "Till o’er the river pois’d, the twain yet one, a moment’s lull,",
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    "text": "A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,",
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    "text": "Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,",
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   {
    "text": "She hers, he his, pursuing.",
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