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    "text": "When mirth is full and free,",
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    "text": "When haughty power mounts high,",
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    "text": "The Watcher’s axe is nigh.",
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    "text": "When the rich town, that long",
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    "text": "Uprears its pageants vast,",
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    "text": "And vaunts⁠—it shall not last!",
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    "text": "Bright tints that shine, are but a sign",
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    "text": "And when thine eye surveys,",
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    "text": "And yearning heart, thy friend⁠—",
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    "text": "Love to its grave doth tend.",
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