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    "text": "Beneath this monument which rears its head,",
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   {
    "text": "A giant note of admiration⁠—dead,",
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    "text": "His life extinguished like a taper’s flame,",
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    "text": "John Ericsson is lying in his fame.",
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    "text": "Behold how massive is the lofty shaft;",
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    "text": "How fine the product of the sculptor’s craft;",
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    "text": "Man’s statue how impressive and sedate!",
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    "text": "Think what the cost was! It would ill become",
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    "text": "Our modesty to specify the sum;",
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    "text": "Suffice it that a fair percent we’re giving",
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    "text": "Of what we robbed him of when he was living.",
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