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    "text": "We stand about this place⁠—we, the memories;",
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   {
    "text": "And shade our eyes because we dread to read:",
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   {
    "text": "“June 17th, 1884, aged 21 years and 3 days.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all things are changed.",
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    "text": "And we⁠—we, the memories, stand here for ourselves alone,",
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   {
    "text": "For no eye marks us, or would know why we are here.",
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    "text": "Your husband is dead, your sister lives far away,",
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    "text": "Your father is bent with age;",
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    "text": "He has forgotten you, he scarcely leaves the house",
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    "text": "Any more.",
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    "text": "No one remembers your exquisite face,",
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   {
    "text": "Your lyric voice!",
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   {
    "text": "How you sang, even on the morning you were stricken,",
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    "text": "With piercing sweetness, with thrilling sorrow,",
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    "text": "Before the advent of the child which died with you.",
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    "text": "It is all forgotten, save by us, the memories,",
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    "text": "Who are forgotten by the world.",
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    "text": "All is changed, save the river and the hill⁠—",
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    "text": "Even they are changed.",
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    "text": "Only the burning sun and the quiet stars are the same.",
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    "text": "And we⁠—we, the memories, stand here in awe,",
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    "text": "Our eyes closed with the weariness of tears⁠—",
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    "text": "In immeasurable weariness!",
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