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   {
    "text": "O endless idiocy of humankind!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O blatant dead that howl and scream and roar!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O strange dead things the worms have gambled for!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O dull and senseless, foolish, mad and blind!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "How long now shall your scent defile the wind?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How long shall you make vile the earth’s wide floor?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How long, how long, O waiting ages hoar,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall the white dawn their gaping faces find?",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O vile and simple, blind of heart and mind,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When shall your last wave roll forevermore",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Back from the sick and long-defiled shore?",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "When shall the grave the last dead carcass bind?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O shameless humankind! O dead! O dead!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When shall your rottenness be buried?",
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