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    "text": "I won the prize essay at school",
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    "text": "Here in the village,",
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    "text": "And published a novel before I was twenty-five.",
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    "text": "And later became president of the bank⁠—",
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    "text": "Meanwhile friend of the great, and lover of letters,",
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    "text": "And host to Matthew Arnold and to Emerson.",
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    "text": "An after dinner speaker, writing essays",
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    "text": "For local clubs. At last brought here⁠—",
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    "text": "My boyhood home, you know⁠—",
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    "text": "Not even a little tablet in Chicago",
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    "text": "To keep my name alive.",
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    "text": "How great it is to write the single line:",
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    "text": "“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll!”",
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