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   {
    "text": "Doc Meyers said I had satyriasis,",
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   {
    "text": "And Doc Hill called it leucaemia⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "But I know what brought me here:",
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   {
    "text": "I was sixty-four but strong as a man",
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    "text": "Of thirty-five or forty.",
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   {
    "text": "And it wasn’t writing a letter a day,",
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    "text": "And it wasn’t late hours seven nights a week,",
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   {
    "text": "And it wasn’t the strain of thinking of Minnie,",
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   {
    "text": "And it wasn’t fear or a jealous dread,",
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   {
    "text": "Or the endless task of trying to fathom",
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   {
    "text": "Her wonderful mind, or sympathy",
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   {
    "text": "For the wretched life she led",
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    "text": "With her first and second husband⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "It was none of these that laid me low⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "But the clamor of daughters and threats of sons,",
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    "text": "And the sneers and curses of all my kin",
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    "text": "Right up to the day I sneaked to Peoria",
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    "text": "And married Minnie in spite of them⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "And why do you wonder my will was made",
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   {
    "text": "For the best and purest of women?",
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