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   {
    "text": "To this generation I would say:",
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   {
    "text": "Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.",
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   {
    "text": "It may serve a turn in your life.",
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   {
    "text": "My husband had nothing to do",
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   {
    "text": "With the fall of the bank⁠—he was only cashier.",
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   {
    "text": "The wreck was due to the president, Thomas Rhodes,",
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   {
    "text": "And his vain, unscrupulous son.",
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    "text": "Yet my husband was sent to prison,",
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    "text": "And I was left with the children,",
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    "text": "To feed and clothe and school them.",
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    "text": "And I did it, and sent them forth",
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   {
    "text": "Into the world all clean and strong,",
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   {
    "text": "And all through the wisdom of Pope, the poet:",
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   {
    "text": "“Act well your part, there all the honor lies.”",
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