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    "text": "My father who owned the wagon-shop",
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    "text": "Sent me to the University of Montreal.",
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    "text": "I learned nothing and returned home,",
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    "text": "Roaming the fields with Bert Kessler,",
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    "text": "Hunting quail and snipe.",
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    "text": "At Thompson’s Lake the trigger of my gun",
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    "text": "Caught in the side of the boat",
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    "text": "And a great hole was shot through my heart.",
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    "text": "Over me a fond father erected this marble shaft,",
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    "text": "On which stands the figure of a woman",
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    "text": "Carved by an Italian artist.",
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    "text": "They say the ashes of my namesake",
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    "text": "Were scattered near the pyramid of Caius Cestius",
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