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   {
    "text": "The other two, slight air and purging fire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Are both with thee, wherever I abide;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The first my thought, the other my desire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These present-absent with swift motion slide.",
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   {
    "text": "For when these quicker elements are gone",
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   {
    "text": "In tender embassy of love to thee,",
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   {
    "text": "My life, being made of four, with two alone",
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   {
    "text": "Sinks down to death, oppress’d with melancholy;",
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   {
    "text": "Until life’s composition be recured,",
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   {
    "text": "By those swift messengers return’d from thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Who even but now come back again, assured",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of thy fair health, recounting it to me:",
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   {
    "text": "This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,",
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   {
    "text": "I send them back again and straight grow sad.",
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