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    "text": "Moore found the ballads of Green Isle",
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    "text": "Were oft obscured beneath the soil,",
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    "text": "In eastern lands his fame prevails",
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    "text": "He sang of Bryan Borohm’s glory,",
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    "text": "Great minstrel from his harp both flows,",
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    "text": "Ireland’s triumphs and her woes,",
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    "text": "Canada doth his fame prolong",
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    "text": "While she doth sing his great boat song,",
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    "text": "The genial, witty, bright Tom Moore.",
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    "text": "Goldsmith wrote of deserted village,",
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    "text": "Now again reduced to tillage,",
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    "text": "Once happiest village of the plain,",
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    "text": "The place you look for it in vain,",
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    "text": "“I’ll fare the land to many ills a prey",
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    "text": "His honest vicar of Wakefield,",
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