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    "text": "When Fort Sumter fell and the war came",
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   {
    "text": "I cried out in bitterness of soul:",
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   {
    "text": "“O glorious republic now no more!”",
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    "text": "When they buried my soldier son",
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    "text": "To the call of trumpets and the sound of drums",
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    "text": "My heart broke beneath the weight",
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    "text": "Of eighty years, and I cried:",
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   {
    "text": "“Oh, son who died in a cause unjust!",
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   {
    "text": "In the strife of Freedom slain!”",
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   {
    "text": "And I crept here under the grass.",
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    "text": "And now from the battlements of time, behold:",
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   {
    "text": "Thrice thirty million souls being bound together",
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   {
    "text": "In the love of larger truth,",
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    "text": "Rapt in the expectation of the birth",
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    "text": "Of a new Beauty,",
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    "text": "Sprung from Brotherhood and Wisdom.",
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   {
    "text": "I with eyes of spirit see the Transfiguration",
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    "text": "Before you see it.",
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    "text": "But ye infinite brood of golden eagles nesting ever higher,",
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    "text": "Wheeling ever higher, the sunlight wooing",
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   {
    "text": "Of lofty places of Thought,",
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    "text": "Forgive the blindness of the departed owl.",
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