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 "title": "Industrial Discontent",
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    "text": "As time rolled on the whole world came to be",
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    "text": "A desolation and a darksome curse;",
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   {
    "text": "And someone said: “The changes that you see",
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   {
    "text": "In the fair frame of things, from bad to worse,",
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   {
    "text": "Are wrought by strikes. The sun withdrew his glimmer",
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    "text": "Because the moon assisted with her shimmer.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "“Then, when poor Luna, straining very hard,",
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    "text": "Doubled her light to serve a darkling world,",
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   {
    "text": "He called her ‘scab,’ and meanly would retard",
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    "text": "Her rising: and at last the villain hurled",
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    "text": "A heavy beam which knocked her o’er the Lion",
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    "text": "Into the nebula of great O’Ryan.",
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    "text": "“The planets all had struck some time before,",
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    "text": "Demanding what they said were equal rights:",
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    "text": "Some pointing out that others had far more",
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    "text": "That a fair dividend of satellites.",
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   {
    "text": "So all went out⁠—but those the best provided,",
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   {
    "text": "If they had dared, would rather have abided.",
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   {
    "text": "“The stars struck too⁠—I think it was because",
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   {
    "text": "The comets had more liberty than they,",
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    "text": "And were not bound by any hampering laws,",
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    "text": "While they were fixed; and there are those who say",
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   {
    "text": "The comets’ tresses nettled poor Antares,",
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    "text": "A bald old orb, whose disposition varies.",
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    "text": "“The earth’s the only one that isn’t in",
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    "text": "The movement⁠—I suppose because she’s watched",
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    "text": "With horror and disgust how her fair skin",
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    "text": "Her pranking parasites have fouled and blotched",
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    "text": "With blood and grease in every labor riot,",
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    "text": "When seeing any purse or throat to fly at.”",
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