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   {
    "text": "O, justice, you have fled, to dwell",
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   {
    "text": "In Mexico, unstrangled,",
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   {
    "text": "Lest you should hang as high as⁠—well,",
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   {
    "text": "As Haman dangled.",
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    "text": "(I know not if his cord be twanged,",
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    "text": "Or the King proved forgiving.",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis hard to think of Haman hanged,",
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    "text": "And Haymond living.)",
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    "text": "Yes, as I said: in mortal fear",
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    "text": "To Mexico you journeyed;",
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    "text": "For you were on your trial here,",
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    "text": "And ill attorneyed.",
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    "text": "The Law had long regarded you",
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    "text": "As an extreme offender.",
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    "text": "Religion looked upon you, too,",
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    "text": "With thoughts untender.",
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    "text": "The Press to you was cold as snow,",
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    "text": "For sin you’d always call so.",
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    "text": "In Politics you were de trop,",
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    "text": "In Morals also.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "All this is accurately true",
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   {
    "text": "And, faith! there might be more said;",
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   {
    "text": "But⁠—well, to save your thrapple you",
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    "text": "Fled, as aforesaid.",
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    "text": "You’re down in Mexico⁠—that’s plain",
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    "text": "As that the sun is risen;",
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   {
    "text": "For Daniel Burns down there his chain",
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    "text": "Drags round in prison.",
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