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    "text": "I have two monuments besides this granite obelisk:",
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   {
    "text": "One, the house I built on the hill,",
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   {
    "text": "With its spires, bay windows, and roof of slate;",
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    "text": "The other, the lake-front in Chicago,",
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   {
    "text": "Where the railroad keeps a switching yard,",
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   {
    "text": "With whistling engines and crunching wheels,",
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   {
    "text": "And smoke and soot thrown over the city,",
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   {
    "text": "And the crash of cars along the boulevard⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "A blot like a hog-pen on the harbor",
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   {
    "text": "Of a great metropolis, foul as a sty.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I helped to give this heritage",
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   {
    "text": "To generations yet unborn, with my vote",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the House of Representatives,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the lure of the thing was to be at rest",
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   {
    "text": "From the never-ending fright of need,",
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   {
    "text": "And to give my daughters gentle breeding,",
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   {
    "text": "And a sense of security in life.",
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   {
    "text": "But, you see, though I had the mansion house",
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   {
    "text": "And traveling passes and local distinction,",
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   {
    "text": "I could hear the whispers, whispers, whispers,",
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   {
    "text": "Wherever I went, and my daughters grew up",
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   {
    "text": "With a look as if someone were about to strike them;",
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    "text": "And they married madly, helter-skelter,",
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    "text": "Just to get out and have a change.",
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   {
    "text": "And what was the whole of the business worth?",
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    "text": "Why, it wasn’t worth a damn!",
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