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    "text": "I was a gun-smith in Odessa.",
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   {
    "text": "One night the police broke in the room",
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   {
    "text": "Where a group of us were reading Spencer.",
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    "text": "And seized our books and arrested us.",
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    "text": "But I escaped and came to New York",
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    "text": "And thence to Chicago, and then to Spoon River,",
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   {
    "text": "Where I could study my Kant in peace",
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    "text": "And eke out a living repairing guns!",
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   {
    "text": "Look at my moulds! My architectonics!",
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   {
    "text": "One for a barrel, one for a hammer,",
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    "text": "And others for other parts of a gun!",
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    "text": "Well, now suppose no gun-smith living",
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    "text": "Had anything else but duplicate moulds",
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   {
    "text": "Of these I show you⁠—well, all guns",
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    "text": "Would be just alike, with a hammer to hit",
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    "text": "The cap and a barrel to carry the shot,",
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   {
    "text": "All acting alike for themselves, and all",
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   {
    "text": "Acting against each other alike.",
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    "text": "And there would be your world of guns!",
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    "text": "Which nothing could ever free from itself",
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    "text": "Except a Moulder with different moulds",
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    "text": "To mould the metal over.",
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