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 "title": "Translations from the Spanish, “El Romancero”",
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   {
    "text": "Although you do your best to regard me",
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    "text": "With an air seeming offended,",
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    "text": "Never can you deny, when all’s ended,",
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    "text": "Calm eyes, that you did regard me.",
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    "text": "However much you’re at pains to",
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    "text": "Offend me, by which I may suffer,",
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    "text": "What offence is there can make up for",
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    "text": "The great good he finds who attains you?",
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    "text": "For though with mortal fear you reward me,",
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    "text": "Until my sorry sense is plenished,",
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    "text": "Never can you deny, when all’s ended,",
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    "text": "Calm eyes, that you did regard me.",
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    "text": "Thinking thus to dismay me",
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    "text": "You beheld me with disdain,",
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    "text": "But instead of destroying the gain,",
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    "text": "In fact with doubled good you paid me.",
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    "text": "For though you show them how hardly",
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    "text": "They keep off from leniency bended,",
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    "text": "Never can you deny, when all’s ended,",
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    "text": "Calm eyes, that you did regard me.",
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    "text": "Ah, little green eyes,",
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    "text": "Ah, little eyes of mine,",
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    "text": "Ah, Heaven be willing",
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    "text": "That you think of me somewise.",
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    "text": "The day of departure",
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    "text": "You came full of grieving",
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    "text": "And to see I was leaving",
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    "text": "The tears ’gan to start sure",
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    "text": "With the heavy torture",
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    "text": "Of sorrows unbrightened",
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    "text": "When you lie down at night and",
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    "text": "When there to you dreams rise,",
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    "text": "Ah, Heaven be willing",
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    "text": "That you think of me somewise.",
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    "text": "Deep is my assurance",
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    "text": "Of you, little green eyes,",
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    "text": "That in truth you realise",
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    "text": "Something of my durance",
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    "text": "Eyes of hope’s fair assurance",
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    "text": "And good premonition",
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    "text": "By virtue of whose condition",
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    "text": "All green colours I prize.",
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   {
    "text": "Ah, Heaven be willing",
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   {
    "text": "That you think of me somewise.",
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    "text": "Would God I might know you",
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    "text": "To which quarter bended",
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    "text": "And why comprehended",
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    "text": "When sighings overflow you,",
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    "text": "And if you must go through",
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    "text": "Some certain despair,",
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    "text": "For that you lose his care",
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    "text": "Who was faithful always.",
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    "text": "Ah, Heaven be willing",
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    "text": "That you think of me these days.",
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    "text": "Through never a moment",
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   {
    "text": "I’ve known how to live lest",
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    "text": "All my thoughts but as one pressed",
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   {
    "text": "You-ward for their concernment.",
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   {
    "text": "May God send chastisement",
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   {
    "text": "If in this I belie me",
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   {
    "text": "And if it truth be",
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    "text": "My own little green eyes.",
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   {
    "text": "Ah, Heaven be willing",
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   {
    "text": "That you think of me somewise.",
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   {
    "text": "Poplars of the meadow,",
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   {
    "text": "Fountains of Madrid,",
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   {
    "text": "Now I am absent from you",
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   {
    "text": "All are slandering me.",
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    "text": "Each of you is telling",
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   {
    "text": "How evil my chance is",
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    "text": "The wind among the branches,",
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   {
    "text": "The fountains in their welling",
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    "text": "To every one telling",
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   {
    "text": "You were happy to see.",
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   {
    "text": "Now I am absent from you",
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    "text": "All are slandering me.",
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    "text": "With good right I may wonder",
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   {
    "text": "For that at my last leaving",
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    "text": "The plants with sighs heaving",
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   {
    "text": "And the waters in tears were.",
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   {
    "text": "That you played double, never",
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   {
    "text": "Thought I this could be,",
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   {
    "text": "Now I am absent from you",
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   {
    "text": "All are slandering me.",
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    "text": "There full in your presence",
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    "text": "Music you sought to waken,",
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   {
    "text": "Later I’m forsaken",
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   {
    "text": "Since you are ware of my absence.",
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   {
    "text": "God, wilt Thou give me patience",
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   {
    "text": "Here while suffer I ye,",
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   {
    "text": "Now I am absent from you",
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   {
    "text": "All are slandering me.",
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   {
    "text": "The day draweth nearer,",
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   {
    "text": "And morrow ends our meeting,",
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   {
    "text": "Ere they take thee sleeping",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Be up⁠—away, my treasure!",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Soft, leave her breasts all unheeded,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far hence though the master still remaineth!",
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   {
    "text": "For soon uptil our earth regaineth",
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   {
    "text": "The sun all embraces dividing.",
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   {
    "text": "N’er grew pleasure all unimpeded,",
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   {
    "text": "N’er was delight lest passion won,",
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   {
    "text": "And to the wise man the fit occasion",
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   {
    "text": "Has not yet refused a full measure:",
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   {
    "text": "Be up⁠—away, my treasure!",
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    "text": "If that my love thy bosom inflameth",
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   {
    "text": "With honest purpose and just intention,",
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   {
    "text": "To free me from my soul’s contention",
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   {
    "text": "Give over joys the day shameth;",
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   {
    "text": "Who thee lameth he also me lameth,",
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   {
    "text": "And my good grace builds all in thy good grace;",
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   {
    "text": "Be up⁠—away! Fear leaveth place,",
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   {
    "text": "That thou art here, no more unto pleasure,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Be up⁠—away, my treasure!",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Although thou with a sleep art wresting,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis rightful thou bringst it close,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That of the favour one meeting shows",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An hundred may hence be attesting.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis fitting too thou shouldst be mindful",
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   {
    "text": "That the ease which we lose now, in kind, full",
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   {
    "text": "Many a promise holds for our leisure;",
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   {
    "text": "Ere they take thee sleeping;",
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   {
    "text": "Be up⁠—away, my treasure!",
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