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 "title": "A Shrine in the Pantheon",
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 "subtitle": "For the Unnamed Soliders Who Died in France",
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    "text": "Here the great heart of France,",
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   {
    "text": "Victor in noble strife,",
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   {
    "text": "Doth consecrate a Poilu’s tomb",
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    "text": "To those who saved her life!",
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    "text": "Brave son without a name,",
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    "text": "Your country calls you home,",
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    "text": "To rest among her heirs of fame,",
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    "text": "Beneath the Pantheon’s dome!",
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    "text": "Now from the height of Heaven,",
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    "text": "The souls of heroes look;",
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    "text": "Their names, ungraven on this stone,",
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    "text": "Are written in God’s book.",
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    "text": "Women of France, who mourn",
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    "text": "Your dead in unmarked ground,",
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   {
    "text": "Come hither! Here the man you loved",
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   {
    "text": "In the heart of France is found!",
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