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 "title": "Song of Golden Youth",
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 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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   {
    "text": "Quelle bêtise! O Muse, no longer lappt in sadness let us lie,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bring the jars of old Falernum, bring the roses ere they die!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I love laughter, I love kisses, I love Lili, I love love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But these dingy funeral dirges ennuyer us by-and-by;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fellows, disinvoltamente, when the lords of life depart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lift the wine-cup to your haughty lips, and sing, Goodbye, goodbye!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We have laughter on our lips, and in our hearts the laughing spring,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nothing greatly can afflict us, nor our spirits mortify;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All the laws and regulations under scornful feet we tread,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We laugh loud at all the virtues underneath the shining sky;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I have heard, when haughty Tarquin did his horrid deed of sin,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That Lucretia’s lily fingers slapp’d his face vivaciously;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though of all my life dear Lili make a gay dégringolade,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet to my ennuis doth Lili sing an endless lullaby;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We are Greeks and we are Tartars, we know all the languages,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To the girls of Persia, India, China, we know how to sigh;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If the heartless heart of Lili tediously cruel prove,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Go and dance the tarantella with the girls of Hôkusai!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the golden-citied world from Paris unto Tokiô",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We are quite at home, we saunter languidly through tall Shanghai;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Chairete! the shaw of rosy Persia is a gentleman,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Charming people in Benares where the Ganges loiters by;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Allah akbar! O great world, O golden-tower’d cities gay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Into all your gates with laughter and with roses enter I!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Kalliste, your Persian ghazal cease to sing: the sun is low,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the sacred hour of absinthe now is very very nigh.",
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