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    "text": "O Liberty, God-gifted⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Young and immortal maid⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "In your high hand uplifted,",
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    "text": "The torch declares your trade.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Its crimson menace, flaming",
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    "text": "Upon the sea and shore,",
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    "text": "Is, trumpet-like, proclaiming",
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    "text": "That Law shall be no more.",
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    "text": "Austere incendiary,",
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    "text": "We’re blinking in the light;",
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    "text": "Where is your customary",
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    "text": "Grenade of dynamite?",
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    "text": "Where are your staves and switches",
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   {
    "text": "For men of gentle birth?",
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    "text": "Your mask and dirk for riches?",
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    "text": "Your chains for wit and worth?",
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    "text": "Perhaps, you’ve brought the halters",
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    "text": "You used in the old days,",
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    "text": "When round religion’s altars",
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    "text": "You stabled Cromwell’s bays?",
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    "text": "Behind you, unsuspected,",
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    "text": "Have you the axe, fair wench,",
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    "text": "Wherewith you once collected",
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    "text": "A poll-tax from the French?",
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    "text": "America salutes you⁠—",
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    "text": "Preparing to “disgorge.”",
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    "text": "Take everything that suits you,",
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    "text": "And marry Henry George.",
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