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    "text": "Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay,",
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   {
    "text": "The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away:",
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    "text": "Thine eyes at last look far and clear, thou liftest high thy hand",
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    "text": "To spread the light of liberty world-wide for every land.",
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    "text": "No more thou dreamest of a peace reserved alone for thee,",
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   {
    "text": "While friends are fighting for thy cause beyond the guardian sea:",
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   {
    "text": "The battle that they wage is thine; thou fallest if they fall;",
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   {
    "text": "The swollen flood of Prussian pride will sweep unchecked o’er all.",
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    "text": "O cruel is the conquer-lust in Hohenzollern brains:",
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    "text": "The paths they plot to gain their goal are dark with shameful stains;",
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    "text": "No faith they keep, no law revere, no god but naked Might;",
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    "text": "They are the foemen of mankind. Up, Liberty, and smite!",
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   {
    "text": "Britain, and France, and Italy, and Russia newly born,",
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   {
    "text": "Have waited for thee in the night. Oh, come as comes the morn!",
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    "text": "Serene and strong and full of faith, America, arise,",
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    "text": "With steady hope and mighty help to join thy brave Allies.",
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    "text": "O dearest country of my heart, home of the high desire,",
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    "text": "Make clean thy soul for sacrifice on Freedom’s altar-fire:",
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   {
    "text": "For thou must suffer, thou must fight, until the warlords cease,",
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    "text": "And all the peoples lift their heads in liberty and peace.",
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