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   {
    "text": "I would to Heaven that I were so much clay,",
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   {
    "text": "As I am blood, bone, marrow, passion, feeling⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Because at least the past were passed away,",
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   {
    "text": "And for the future⁠—(but I write this reeling,",
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   {
    "text": "Having got drunk exceedingly to-day,",
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   {
    "text": "So that I seem to stand upon the ceiling)",
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   {
    "text": "I say⁠—the future is a serious matter⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "And so⁠—for God’s sake⁠—hock and soda-water!",
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