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    "text": "Often Aner Clute at the gate",
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    "text": "Refused me the parting kiss,",
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    "text": "Saying we should be engaged before that;",
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    "text": "And just with a distant clasp of the hand",
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    "text": "She bade me good-night, as I brought her home",
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    "text": "From the skating rink or the revival.",
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    "text": "No sooner did my departing footsteps die away",
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    "text": "Than Lucius Atherton,",
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    "text": "(So I learned when Aner went to Peoria)",
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   {
    "text": "Stole in at her window, or took her riding",
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    "text": "Behind his spanking team of bays",
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    "text": "Into the country.",
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    "text": "The shock of it made me settle down",
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    "text": "And I put all the money I got from my father’s estate",
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    "text": "Into the canning factory, to get the job",
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    "text": "Of head accountant, and lost it all.",
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    "text": "And then I knew I was one of Life’s fools,",
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    "text": "Whom only death would treat as the equal",
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    "text": "Of other men, making me feel like a man.",
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