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    "text": "Not all in sorrow and in tears,",
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   {
    "text": "To pay of gratitude’s arrears",
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   {
    "text": "The yearly sum⁠—",
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    "text": "Of those for whom their friends have died,",
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    "text": "To-day we come.",
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    "text": "Another aim we have in view",
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    "text": "Than for the buried boys in blue",
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    "text": "To drop a tear:",
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    "text": "Memorial Day revives the chin",
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    "text": "Of Barnes, and Salomon chimes in⁠—",
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    "text": "That’s why we’re here.",
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    "text": "And when in after ages they",
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    "text": "Shall pass, like mortal men, away,",
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    "text": "Their war-song sung⁠—",
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    "text": "When Fame shall tell the tale anew",
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    "text": "Of how intrepidly they drew",
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    "text": "The deadly tongue⁠—",
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    "text": "Then cull white lilies for the graves",
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    "text": "Of Loyalty’s loquacious braves,",
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    "text": "And roses red.",
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    "text": "Those represent their livers, these",
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    "text": "The blood that in unmeasured seas",
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    "text": "They did not shed.",
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