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 "poet": "William Carlos Williams",
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   {
    "text": "Well, mind, here we have",
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   {
    "text": "our little son beside us:",
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    "text": "a little diversion before breakfast!",
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   {
    "text": "Come, we’ll walk down the road",
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   {
    "text": "till the bacon will be frying.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We might better be idle?",
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    "text": "A poem might come of it?",
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   {
    "text": "Oh, be useful. Save annoyance",
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   },
   {
    "text": "to Flossie and besides⁠—the wind!",
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   {
    "text": "It’s cold. It blows our",
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    "text": "old pants out! It makes us shiver!",
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   {
    "text": "See the heavy trees",
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    "text": "shifting their weight before it.",
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    "text": "Let us be trees, an old house,",
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    "text": "a hill with grass on it!",
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   {
    "text": "The baby’s arms are blue.",
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    "text": "Come, move! Be quieted!",
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    "text": "So. We’ll sit here now",
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    "text": "and throw pebbles into",
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   {
    "text": "this water-trickle.",
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    "text": "Splash the water up!",
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    "text": "(Splash it up, Sonny!) Laugh!",
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   {
    "text": "Hit it there deep under the grass.",
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   {
    "text": "See it splash! Ah, mind,",
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   {
    "text": "see it splash! It is alive!",
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   {
    "text": "Throw pieces of broken leaves",
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    "text": "into it. They’ll pass through.",
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   {
    "text": "No! Yes⁠—just!",
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   {
    "text": "Away now for the cows! But⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "It’s cold!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It’s getting dark.",
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   {
    "text": "It’s going to rain.",
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   {
    "text": "No further!",
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    "text": "Oh then, a wreath! Let’s",
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   {
    "text": "refresh something they",
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   {
    "text": "used to write well of.",
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   {
    "text": "Two fern plumes. Strip them",
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   {
    "text": "to the mid-rib along one side.",
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   {
    "text": "Bind the tips with a grass stem.",
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   {
    "text": "Bend and intertwist the stalks",
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   {
    "text": "at the back. So!",
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   {
    "text": "Ah! now we are crowned!",
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   {
    "text": "Now we are a poet!",
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    "text": "Quickly!",
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   {
    "text": "A bunch of little flowers",
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   {
    "text": "for Flossie⁠—the little ones",
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   {
    "text": "only:",
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   {
    "text": "a red clover, one",
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    "text": "blue heal-all, a sprig of",
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    "text": "bone-set, one primrose,",
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    "text": "a head of Indian tobacco, this",
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   {
    "text": "magenta speck and this",
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    "text": "little lavender!",
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    "text": "Home now, my mind!⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Sonny’s arms are icy, I tell you⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "and have breakfast!",
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