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    "text": "This is no case of petty right or wrong",
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   {
    "text": "That politicians or philosophers",
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   {
    "text": "Can judge. I hate not Germans, nor grow hot",
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   {
    "text": "With love of Englishmen, to please newspapers.",
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   {
    "text": "Beside my hate for one fat patriot",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My hatred of the Kaiser is love true:⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "A kind of god he is, banging a gong.",
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   {
    "text": "But I have not to choose between the two,",
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   {
    "text": "Or between justice and injustice. Dinned",
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   {
    "text": "With war and argument I read no more",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than in the storm smoking along the wind",
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   {
    "text": "Athwart the wood. Two witches’ cauldrons roar.",
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   {
    "text": "From one the weather shall rise clear and gay;",
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   {
    "text": "Out of the other an England beautiful",
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   {
    "text": "And like her mother that died yesterday.",
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    "text": "Little I know or care if, being dull,",
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    "text": "I shall miss something that historians",
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    "text": "Can rake out of the ashes when perchance",
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    "text": "The phoenix broods serene above their ken.",
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   {
    "text": "But with the best and meanest Englishmen",
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   {
    "text": "I am one in crying, God save England, lest",
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   {
    "text": "We lose what never slaves and cattle blessed.",
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   {
    "text": "The ages made her that made us from the dust:",
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    "text": "She is all we know and live by, and we trust",
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   {
    "text": "She is good and must endure, loving her so:",
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    "text": "And as we love ourselves we hate her foe.",
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