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 "title": "Salvini in America",
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   {
    "text": "Come, gentlemen⁠—your gold.",
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   {
    "text": "Thanks; welcome to the show,",
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   {
    "text": "To hear a story told",
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    "text": "In words you do not know.",
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    "text": "Now, great Salvini, rise",
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    "text": "And thunder through your tears!",
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   {
    "text": "Aha! friends, let your eyes",
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    "text": "Interpret to your ears.",
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   {
    "text": "Gods! ’tis a goodly game.",
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   {
    "text": "Observe his stride⁠—how grand!",
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    "text": "When legs like his declaim",
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    "text": "Who can misunderstand?",
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    "text": "See how that arm goes round.",
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   {
    "text": "It says, as plain as day:",
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   {
    "text": "“I love,” “The lost is found,”",
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    "text": "“Well met, sir,” or, “Away!”",
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    "text": "And mark the drawing down",
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    "text": "Of brows. How accurate",
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    "text": "The language of that frown:",
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    "text": "Pain, gentlemen⁠—or hate.",
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    "text": "Those of the critic trade",
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    "text": "Swear it is all as clear",
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    "text": "As if his tongue were made",
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    "text": "To fit an English ear.",
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    "text": "Hear that Italian phrase!",
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    "text": "Greek to your sense, ’tis true;",
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   {
    "text": "But shrug, expression, gaze⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Well, they are Grecian too.",
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    "text": "But it is Art! God wot",
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    "text": "Art’s tongue to all is known.",
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    "text": "Faith! he to whom ’twere not",
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    "text": "Would better hold his own.",
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    "text": "Shakespeare says act and word",
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    "text": "Should match together true.",
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   {
    "text": "For what you’ve seen and heard,",
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   {
    "text": "How can you doubt they do?",
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    "text": "Enchanting drama! Mark",
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    "text": "The crowd “from pit to dome”;",
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    "text": "One box alone is dark⁠—",
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    "text": "The prompter stays at home.",
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    "text": "Stupendous artist! You",
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    "text": "Are lord of joy and woe:",
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   {
    "text": "We thrill if you say “Boo,”",
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   {
    "text": "And thrill if you say “Bo.”",
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