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   {
    "text": "Oh, Marcus D. Boruck, me hearty,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I sympathize wid ye, poor lad!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A man that’s shot out of his party",
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   {
    "text": "Is mighty onlucky, bedad!",
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   {
    "text": "An’ the sowl o’ that man is sad.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "But, Marcus, gossoon, ye desarve it⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Ye know for yerself that ye do,",
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   {
    "text": "For ye j’ined not intendin’ to sarve it,",
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   {
    "text": "But hopin’ to make it sarve you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though the roll of its members wuz two.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The other wuz Pixley, an’ “Surely,”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ye said, “he’s a kite that wull sail.”",
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    "text": "An’ so ye hung till him securely,",
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   {
    "text": "Enactin’ the role of a tail.",
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    "text": "But there wuzn’t the ghost of a gale!",
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    "text": "But the party to-day has behind it",
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    "text": "A powerful backin’, I’m told;",
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   {
    "text": "For just enough Irish have j’ined it",
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   {
    "text": "(An’ I’m m’anin’ to be enrolled)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To kick ye out into the cold.",
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    "text": "It’s hard on ye, darlint, I’m thinkin’⁠—",
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    "text": "So young⁠—so American, too,",
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   {
    "text": "Wid bypassers grinnin’ an’ winkin’,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An’ sayin’, wid ref’rence to you:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Get onto the murtherin’ Joo!”",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Republicans never will take ye⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They had ye for many a year;",
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    "text": "An’ Democrats⁠—angels forsake ye!⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If ever ye come about here",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We’ll brand ye and scallop yer ear!",
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