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    "text": "Your attention, Thomas Rhodes, president of the bank;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Coolbaugh Whedon, editor of the Argus;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rev. Peet, pastor of the leading church;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A. D. Blood, several times Mayor of Spoon River;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And finally all of you, members of the Social Purity Club⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your attention to Cambronne’s dying words,",
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   {
    "text": "Standing with the heroic remnant",
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   {
    "text": "Of Napoleon’s guard on Mount Saint Jean",
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   {
    "text": "At the battle field of Waterloo,",
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    "text": "When Maitland, the Englishman, called to them:",
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   {
    "text": "“Surrender, brave Frenchmen!”⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "There at close of day with the battle hopelessly lost,",
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    "text": "And hordes of men no longer the army",
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    "text": "Of the great Napoleon",
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    "text": "Streamed from the field like ragged strips",
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    "text": "Of thunder clouds in the storm.",
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    "text": "Well, what Cambronne said to Maitland",
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    "text": "Ere the English fire made smooth the brow of the hill",
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    "text": "Against the sinking light of day",
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    "text": "Say I to you, and all of you,",
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   {
    "text": "And to you, O world.",
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   {
    "text": "And I charge you to carve it",
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    "text": "Upon my stone.",
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