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  "note": "Taken from Volume V of the Neale collected edition (copyright 1911). That is the printing this text comes from, not the poem's first appearance: the volume's own preface states that most of its verses are republished from newspapers and periodicals of the Pacific Coast, and which of them printed this poem first has not been established here.",
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   {
    "text": "The bands have played, the singers finished singing,",
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   {
    "text": "The flags done flapping and the bells done ringing.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hereditary candidates have spoken;",
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   {
    "text": "Their tongues are silent and their hearts are broken⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Barnes, Shortridge, Salomon-in-all-his-glory,",
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   {
    "text": "With wounds (their mouths) no longer wide and gory⁠—",
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    "text": "Healed by the touch of time; for even orations",
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    "text": "Must sometimes come to end if one have patience.",
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   {
    "text": "And still in spite of all the din infernal",
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   {
    "text": "Of every “General” and “Judge” and “Colonel,”",
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    "text": "Our grand old heroes sleep in peace eternal!",
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