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    "text": "The trumpet sounded and the dead",
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   {
    "text": "Came forth from earth and ocean,",
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    "text": "“What makes him fly lop-sided?” cried",
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    "text": "A soul of the elected.",
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    "text": "“One ear was wax,” a rogue replied,",
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    "text": "“And isn’t resurrected.”",
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    "text": "Below him on the pitted plain,",
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    "text": "By his abandoned hollow,",
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    "text": "His hair and teeth tried all in vain",
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    "text": "The rest of him to follow.",
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    "text": "Saint Peter, seeing him ascend,",
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    "text": "And said: “My mutilated friend,",
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    "text": "“The Call,” said Pickering, his hand",
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    "text": "To reach the latch extended.",
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    "text": "Said Peter, affable and bland:",
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    "text": "“The free-list is suspended⁠—",
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    "text": "“What claim have you that’s valid here?”",
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    "text": "That ancient vilifier",
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    "text": "Said Peter: “That is simple, neat",
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    "text": "And candid Anglo-Saxon,",
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    "text": "But⁠—well, come in, and take a seat",
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    "text": "Up there by Colonel Jackson.”",
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