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    "text": "I was the daughter of Lambert Hutchins,",
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    "text": "Born in a cottage near the grist-mill,",
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    "text": "How proud my mother was of the mansion!",
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    "text": "How proud of father’s rise in the world!",
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    "text": "And how my father loved and watched us,",
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    "text": "And guarded our happiness.",
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    "text": "But I believe the house was a curse,",
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    "text": "For father’s fortune was little beside it;",
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    "text": "And when my husband found he had married",
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    "text": "A girl who was really poor,",
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    "text": "He taunted me with the spires,",
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    "text": "And called the house a fraud on the world,",
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    "text": "A treacherous lure to young men, raising hopes",
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    "text": "Of a dowry not to be had;",
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    "text": "And a man while selling his vote",
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    "text": "He vexed my life till I went back home",
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    "text": "And lived like an old maid till I died,",
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    "text": "Keeping house for father.",
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