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      "text": "For I would walk alone,\n\nUnder the quiet stars, and at that time\n\nHave felt whate'er there is of power in sound\n\nTo breathe an elevated mood, by form\n\nOr image unprofaned; and I would stand,\n\nIf the night blackened with a coming storm,\n\nBeneath some rock, listening to notes that are\n\nThe ghostly language of the ancient earth,\n\nOr make their dim abode in distant winds.\n\nThence did I drink the visionary power;\n\nAnd deem not profitless those fleeting moods\n\nOf shadowy exultation: not for this,\n\nThat they are kindred to our purer mind\n\nAnd intellectual life; but that the soul,\n\nRemembering how she felt, but what she felt\n\nRemembering not, retains an obscure sense\n\nOf possible sublimity, whereto\n\nWith growing faculties she doth aspire,\n\nWith faculties still growing, feeling still\n\nThat whatsoever point they gain, they yet\n\nHave something to pursue.",
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