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  "text": "With thee conversing I forget all time,\n\nAll seasons, and their change; all please alike.\n\nSweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,\n\nWith charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun\n\nWhen first on this delightful land he spreads\n\nHis orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,\n\nGlist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth\n\nAfter soft showers; and sweet the coming on\n\nOf grateful ev'ning mild; then silent night\n\nWith this her solemn bird and this fair moon,\n\nAnd these the gems of heaven, her starry train:\n\nBut neither breath of morn when she ascends\n\nWith charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun\n\nOn this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower,\n\nGlist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers,\n\nNor grateful ev'ning mild, nor silent night\n\nWith this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon\n\nOr glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.",
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      "text": "So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd\n\nHis nostril wide into the murky air,\n\nSagacious of his quarry from so far.",
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