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    "text": "Tell me, was Altgeld elected Governor?",
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   {
    "text": "For when the returns began to come in",
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    "text": "And Cleveland was sweeping the East,",
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    "text": "It was too much for you, poor old heart,",
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    "text": "Who had striven for democracy",
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    "text": "In the long, long years of defeat.",
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    "text": "And like a watch that is worn",
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    "text": "I felt you growing slower until you stopped.",
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    "text": "Tell me, was Altgeld elected,",
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   {
    "text": "And what did he do?",
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    "text": "Did they bring his head on a platter to a dancer,",
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    "text": "Or did he triumph for the people?",
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    "text": "For when I saw him",
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    "text": "And took his hand,",
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    "text": "The child-like blueness of his eyes",
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    "text": "Moved me to tears,",
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    "text": "And there was an air of eternity about him,",
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    "text": "Like the cold, clear light that rests at dawn",
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    "text": "On the hills!",
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