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    "text": "Where are the Islands of the Blest?",
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    "text": "They stud the Aegean Sea;",
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    "text": "And where the deep Elysian rest?",
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    "text": "Pours his incessant stream along,",
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    "text": "For what is Afric, but the home",
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    "text": "Of burning Phlegethon?",
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