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    "text": "When I went to the city, Mary McNeely,",
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   {
    "text": "I meant to return for you, yes I did.",
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   {
    "text": "But Laura, my landlady’s daughter,",
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   {
    "text": "Stole into my life somehow, and won me away.",
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   {
    "text": "Then after some years whom should I meet",
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   {
    "text": "But Georgine Miner from Niles⁠—a sprout",
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   {
    "text": "Of the free love, Fourierist gardens that flourished",
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   {
    "text": "Before the war all over Ohio.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her dilettante lover had tired of her,",
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   {
    "text": "And she turned to me for strength and solace.",
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    "text": "She was some kind of a crying thing",
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   {
    "text": "One takes in one’s arms, and all at once",
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   {
    "text": "It slimes your face with its running nose,",
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   {
    "text": "And voids its essence all over you;",
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    "text": "Then bites your hand and springs away.",
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    "text": "And there you stand bleeding and smelling to heaven!",
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    "text": "Why, Mary McNeely, I was not worthy",
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    "text": "To kiss the hem of your robe!",
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