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   {
    "text": "How many times, during the twenty years",
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   {
    "text": "I was your leader, friends of Spoon River,",
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    "text": "Did you neglect the convention and caucus,",
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   {
    "text": "And leave the burden on my hands",
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    "text": "Of guarding and saving the people’s cause?⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Sometimes because you were ill;",
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    "text": "Or your grandmother was ill;",
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    "text": "Or you drank too much and fell asleep;",
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   {
    "text": "Or else you said: “He is our leader,",
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   {
    "text": "All will be well; he fights for us;",
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    "text": "We have nothing to do but follow.”",
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   {
    "text": "But oh, how you cursed me when I fell,",
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   {
    "text": "And cursed me, saying I had betrayed you,",
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    "text": "In leaving the caucus room for a moment,",
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    "text": "When the people’s enemies, there assembled,",
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    "text": "Waited and watched for a chance to destroy",
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    "text": "The Sacred Rights of the People.",
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   {
    "text": "You common rabble! I left the caucus",
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    "text": "To go to the urinal!",
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