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   {
    "text": "Sir, you’re a veteran, revealed",
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   {
    "text": "In history and fable",
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    "text": "As warrior since you took the field,",
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    "text": "Defeating Abel.",
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    "text": "As Commissary later (or",
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    "text": "If not, in every cottage",
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    "text": "The tale is) you contracted for",
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    "text": "A mess of pottage.",
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    "text": "In civil life you were, we read",
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    "text": "(And our respect increases)",
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    "text": "A man of peace⁠—a man, indeed,",
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    "text": "Of thirty pieces.",
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    "text": "To paying taxes when you turned",
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    "text": "Your mind, or what you call so,",
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    "text": "A wide celebrity you earned⁠—",
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    "text": "Sapphira also.",
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    "text": "In every age, by various names,",
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    "text": "You’ve won renown in story,",
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    "text": "But on your present record flames",
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    "text": "A greater glory.",
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    "text": "Cain, Esau, and Iscariot too,",
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    "text": "And Ananias, likewise,",
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    "text": "Each had peculiar powers, but who",
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   {
    "text": "Could lie as Mike lies?",
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