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    "text": "The press of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked,",
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   {
    "text": "And I was tarred and feathered,",
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    "text": "For publishing this on the day the Anarchists were hanged in Chicago:",
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   {
    "text": "“I saw a beautiful woman with bandaged eyes",
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    "text": "Standing on the steps of a marble temple.",
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    "text": "Great multitudes passed in front of her,",
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    "text": "She was brandishing the sword,",
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    "text": "Sometimes striking a child, again a laborer,",
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    "text": "Again a slinking woman, again a lunatic.",
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    "text": "In her right hand she held a scale;",
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    "text": "Into the scale pieces of gold were tossed",
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    "text": "By those who dodged the strokes of the sword.",
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    "text": "A man in a black gown read from a manuscript:",
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    "text": "‘She is no respecter of persons.’",
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    "text": "Then a youth wearing a red cap",
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