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 "title": "Texas",
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 "subtitle": "A Democratic Ode",
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  "year": 1920,
  "venue": "The Poems of Henry Van Dyke (1920)",
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    "text": "All along the Brazos river,",
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    "text": "All along the Colorado,",
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    "text": "In the valleys and the lowlands",
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    "text": "Where the trees were tall and stately,",
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    "text": "In the rich and rolling meadows",
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    "text": "Where the grass was full of wild-flowers,",
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    "text": "Came a humming and a buzzing,",
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    "text": "Came the murmur of a going",
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    "text": "To and fro among the tree-tops,",
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    "text": "Far and wide across the meadows.",
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    "text": "And the red-men in their tepees",
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    "text": "Smoked their pipes of clay and listened.",
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    "text": "“What is this?” they asked in wonder;",
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    "text": "“Who can give the sound a meaning?",
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    "text": "Who can understand the language",
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    "text": "Of this going in the tree-tops?”",
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    "text": "Then the wisest of the Tejas",
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    "text": "Laid his pipe aside and answered:",
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   {
    "text": "“O my brothers, these are people,",
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    "text": "Very little, winged people,",
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    "text": "Countless, busy, banded people,",
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    "text": "Coming humming through the timber.",
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    "text": "These are tribes of bees, united",
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    "text": "By a single aim and purpose,",
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    "text": "To possess the Tejas’ country,",
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    "text": "Gather harvest from the prairies,",
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    "text": "Store their wealth among the timber.",
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   {
    "text": "These are hive and honey makers,",
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   {
    "text": "Sent by Manito to warn us",
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    "text": "That the white men now are coming,",
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    "text": "With their women and their children.",
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    "text": "Not the fiery filibusters",
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    "text": "Passing wildly in a moment,",
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    "text": "Like a flame across the prairies,",
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    "text": "Like a whirlwind through the forest,",
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    "text": "Leaving empty lands behind them!",
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    "text": "Not the Mexicans and Spaniards,",
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    "text": "Indolent and proud hidalgos,",
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    "text": "Dwelling in their haciendas,",
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    "text": "Dreaming, talking of to-morrow,",
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    "text": "While their cattle graze around them,",
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    "text": "And their fickle revolutions",
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    "text": "Change the rulers, not the people!",
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   {
    "text": "Other folk are these who follow",
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    "text": "When the wild-bees come to warn us;",
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    "text": "These are hive and honey makers,",
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    "text": "These are busy, banded people,",
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    "text": "Roaming far to swarm and settle,",
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    "text": "Working every day for harvest,",
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    "text": "Fighting hard for peace and order,",
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   {
    "text": "Worshipping as queens their women,",
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    "text": "Making homes and building cities",
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    "text": "Full of riches and of trouble.",
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    "text": "All our hunting-grounds must vanish,",
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    "text": "All our lodges fall before them,",
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    "text": "All our customs and traditions,",
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    "text": "All our happy life of freedom,",
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    "text": "Fade away like smoke before them.",
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    "text": "Come, my brothers, strike your tepees,",
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    "text": "Call your women, load your ponies!",
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    "text": "Let us take the trail to westward,",
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    "text": "Where the plains are wide and open,",
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    "text": "Where the bison-herds are gathered",
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    "text": "Waiting for our feathered arrows.",
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    "text": "We will live as lived our fathers,",
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    "text": "Gleaners of the gifts of nature,",
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    "text": "Hunters of the unkept cattle,",
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    "text": "Men whose women run to serve them.",
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    "text": "If the toiling bees pursue us,",
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    "text": "If the white men seek to tame us,",
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    "text": "We will fight them off and flee them,",
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    "text": "Break their hives and take their honey,",
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   {
    "text": "Moving westward, ever westward,",
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    "text": "There to live as lived our fathers.”",
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    "text": "So the red-men drove their ponies,",
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    "text": "With the tent-poles trailing after,",
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    "text": "Out along the path to sunset,",
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    "text": "While along the river valleys",
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    "text": "Swarmed the wild-bees, the forerunners;",
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    "text": "And the white men, close behind them,",
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    "text": "Men of mark from old Missouri,",
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    "text": "Men of daring from Kentucky,",
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    "text": "Tennessee, Louisiana,",
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    "text": "Men of many States and races,",
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    "text": "Bringing wives and children with them,",
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    "text": "Followed up the wooded valleys,",
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    "text": "Spread across the rolling prairies,",
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    "text": "Raising homes and reaping harvests.",
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    "text": "Rude the toil that tried their patience,",
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   {
    "text": "Fierce the fights that proved their courage,",
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    "text": "Rough the stone and tough the timber",
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    "text": "Out of which they built their order!",
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   {
    "text": "Yet they never failed nor faltered,",
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    "text": "And the instinct of their swarming",
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    "text": "Made them one and kept them working,",
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    "text": "Till their toil was crowned with triumph,",
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    "text": "And the country of the Tejas",
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    "text": "Was the fertile land of Texas.",
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    "text": "Behold a star appearing in the South,",
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    "text": "A star that shines apart from other stars,",
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    "text": "Ruddy and fierce like Mars!",
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   {
    "text": "Out of the reeking smoke of cannon’s mouth",
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   {
    "text": "That veils the slaughter of the Alamo,",
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    "text": "Where heroes face the foe,",
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    "text": "One man against a score, with blood-choked breath",
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    "text": "Shouting the watchword, “Victory or Death⁠—”",
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   {
    "text": "Out of the dreadful cloud that settles low",
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   {
    "text": "On Goliad’s plain,",
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    "text": "Where thrice a hundred prisoners lie slain",
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    "text": "Beneath the broken word of Mexico⁠—",
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    "text": "Out of the fog of factions and of feuds",
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    "text": "That ever drifts and broods",
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   {
    "text": "Above the bloody path of border war,",
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   {
    "text": "Leaps the Lone Star!",
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    "text": "What light is this that does not dread the dark?",
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   {
    "text": "What star is this that fights a stormy way",
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   {
    "text": "To San Jacinto’s field of victory?",
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   {
    "text": "It is the fiery spark",
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   {
    "text": "That burns within the breast",
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   {
    "text": "Of Anglo-Saxon men, who can not rest",
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   {
    "text": "Under a tyrant’s sway;",
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   {
    "text": "The upward-leading ray",
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   {
    "text": "That guides the brave who give their lives away",
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   {
    "text": "Rather than not be free!",
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   {
    "text": "O question not, but honour every name,",
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   {
    "text": "Travis and Crockett, Bowie, Bonham, Ward,",
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   {
    "text": "Fannin and King, and all who drew the sword",
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   {
    "text": "And dared to die for Texan liberty!",
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   {
    "text": "Yea, write them all upon the roll of fame,",
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   {
    "text": "But no less love and equal honour give",
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   {
    "text": "To those who paid the longer sacrifice⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Austin and Houston, Burnet, Rusk, Lamar",
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   {
    "text": "And all the stalwart men who dared to live",
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   {
    "text": "Long years of service to the lonely star.",
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    "text": "Great is the worth of such heroic souls:",
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   {
    "text": "Amid the strenuous turmoil of their deeds,",
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   {
    "text": "They clearly speak of something that controls",
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    "text": "The higher breeds of men by higher needs",
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   {
    "text": "Than bees, content with honey in their hives!",
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   {
    "text": "Ah, not enough the narrow lives",
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   {
    "text": "On profitable toil intent!",
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   {
    "text": "And not enough the guerdons of success",
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   {
    "text": "Garnered in homes of affluent selfishness!",
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    "text": "A noble discontent",
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   {
    "text": "Cries for a wider scope",
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   {
    "text": "To use the wider wings of human hope;",
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   {
    "text": "A vision of the common good",
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   {
    "text": "Opens the prison-door of solitude;",
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    "text": "And, once beyond the wall,",
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   {
    "text": "Breathing the ampler air,",
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    "text": "The heart becomes aware",
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   {
    "text": "That life without a country is not life at all.",
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    "text": "A country worthy of a freeman’s love;",
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   {
    "text": "A country worthy of a good man’s prayer;",
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   {
    "text": "A country strong, and just, and brave, and fair⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "A woman’s form of beauty throned above",
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   {
    "text": "The shrine where noble aspirations meet⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "To live for her is great, to die is sweet!",
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    "text": "Heirs of the rugged pioneers",
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   {
    "text": "Who dreamed this dream and made it true,",
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   {
    "text": "Remember that they dreamed for you.",
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   {
    "text": "They did not fear their fate",
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   {
    "text": "In those tempestuous years,",
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   {
    "text": "But put their trust in God, and with keen eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "Trained in the open air for looking far,",
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   {
    "text": "They saw the many-million-acred land",
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    "text": "Won from the desert by their hand,",
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   {
    "text": "Swiftly among the nations rise⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Texas a sovereign State,",
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   {
    "text": "And on her brow a star!",
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   {
    "text": "How strange that the nature of light is a thing beyond our ken,",
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   {
    "text": "And the flame of the tiniest candle flows from a fountain sealed!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How strange that the meaning of life, in the little lives of men,",
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   {
    "text": "So often baffles our search with a mystery unrevealed!",
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   {
    "text": "But the larger life of man, as it moves in its secular sweep,",
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   {
    "text": "Is the working out of a Sovereign Will whose ways appear;",
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   {
    "text": "And the course of the journeying stars on the dark blue boundless deep,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is the place where our science rests in the reign of law most clear.",
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    "text": "I would read the story of Texas as if it were written on high;",
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   {
    "text": "I would look from afar to follow her path through the calms and storms;",
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   {
    "text": "With a faith in the world-wide sway of the Reason that rules in the sky,",
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   {
    "text": "And gathers and guides the starry host in clusters and swarms.",
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    "text": "When she rose in the pride of her youth, she seemed to be moving apart,",
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    "text": "As a single star in the South, self-limited, self-possessed;",
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   {
    "text": "But the law of the constellation was written deep in her heart,",
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   {
    "text": "And she heard when her sisters called, from the North and the East and the West.",
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   {
    "text": "They were drawn together and moved by a common hope and aim⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The dream of a sign that should rule a third of the heavenly arch;",
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   {
    "text": "The soul of a people spoke in their call, and Texas came",
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   {
    "text": "To enter the splendid circle of States in their onward march.",
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   {
    "text": "So the glory gathered and grew and spread from sea to sea,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the stars of the great republic lent each other light;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For all were bound together in strength, and each was free⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Suddenly broke the tempest out of the ancient night!",
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   {
    "text": "It came as a clash of the force that drives and the force that draws;",
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   {
    "text": "And the stars were riven asunder, the heavens were desolate,",
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   {
    "text": "While brother fought with brother, each for his country’s cause:",
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   {
    "text": "But the country of one was the Nation, the country of other the State.",
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   {
    "text": "Oh, who shall measure the praise or blame in a strife so vast?",
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    "text": "And who shall speak of traitors or tyrants when all were true?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We lift our eyes to the sky, and rejoice that the storm is past,",
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   {
    "text": "And we thank the God of all that the Union shines in the blue.",
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   {
    "text": "Yea, it glows with the glory of peace and the hope of a mighty race,",
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    "text": "High over the grave of broken chains and buried hates;",
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    "text": "And the great, big star of Texas is shining clear in its place",
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    "text": "In the constellate symbol and sign of the free United States.",
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   {
    "text": "After the pioneers⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Big-hearted, big-handed lords of the axe and the plow and the rifle,",
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   {
    "text": "Tan-faced tamers of horses and lands, themselves remaining tameless,",
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    "text": "Full of fighting, labour and romance, lovers of rude adventure⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "After the pioneers have cleared the way to their homes and graves on the prairies:",
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   {
    "text": "After the State-builders⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Zealous and jealous men, dreamers, debaters, often at odds with each other,",
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   {
    "text": "All of them sure it is well to toil and to die, if need be,",
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   {
    "text": "Just for the sake of founding a country to leave to their children⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "After the builders have done their work and written their names upon it:",
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   {
    "text": "After the civil war⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Wildest of all storms, cruel and dark and seemingly wasteful,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Tearing up by the root the vines that were splitting the old foundations,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Washing away with a rain of blood and tears the dust of slavery,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "After the cyclone has passed and the sky is fair to the far horizon;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "After the era of plenty and peace has come with full hands to Texas,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then⁠—what then?",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Is it to be the life of an indolent heir, fat-witted and self-contented,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dwelling at ease in the house that others have builded,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Boasting about the country for which he has done nothing?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Is it to be an age of corpulent, deadly-dull prosperity,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Richer and richer crops to nourish a race of Philistines,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Bigger and bigger cities full of the same confusion and sorrow,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The people increasing mightily but no increase of the joy?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Is this what the forerunners wished and toiled to win for you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This the reward of war and the fruitage of high endeavor,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This the goal of your hopes and the vision that satisfies you?",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Nay, stand up and answer⁠—I can read what is in your hearts⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You, the children of those who followed the wild-bees,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You, the children of those who served the Lone Star,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now that the hives are full and the star is fixed in the constellation,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I know that the best of you still are lovers of sweetness and light!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "You hunger for honey that comes from invisible gardens;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Pure, translucent, golden thoughts and feelings and inspirations,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Sweetness of all the best that has bloomed in the mind of man.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "You rejoice in the light that is breaking along the borders of science;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The hidden rays that enable a man to look through a wall of stone;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The unseen, fire-filled wings that carry his words across the ocean;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The splendid gift of flight that shines, half-captured, above him;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The gleam of a thousand half-guessed secrets, just ready to be discovered!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "You dream and devise great things for the coming race⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Children of yours who shall people and rule the domain of Texas;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "They shall know, they shall comprehend more than their fathers,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "They shall grow in the vigour of well-rounded manhood and womanhood,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Riper minds, richer hearts, finer souls, the only true wealth of a nation⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The league-long fields of the State are pledged to ensure this harvest!",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Your old men have dreamed this dream and your young men have seen this vision.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The age of romance has not gone, it is only beginning;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Greater words than the ear of man has heard are waiting to be spoken,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Finer arts than the eyes of man have seen are sleeping to be awakened:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Science exploring the scope of the world,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Poetry breathing the hope of the world,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Music to measure and lead the onward march of man!",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Come, ye honoured and welcome guests from the elder nations,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Princes of science and arts and letters,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Look on the walls that embody the generous dream of one of the old men of Texas,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Enter these halls of learning that rise in the land of the pioneer’s log-cabin,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Read the confessions of faith that are carved on the stones around you:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Faith in the worth of the smallest fact and the laws that govern the starbeams,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Faith in the beauty of truth and the truth of perfect beauty,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Faith in the God who creates the souls of men by knowledge and love and worship.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "This is the faith of the New Democracy⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Proud and humble, patiently pressing forward,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Praising her heroes of old and training her future leaders,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Seeking her crown in a nobler race of men and women⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "After the pioneers, sweetness and light!",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ]
 ]
}