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    "text": "And dazzling bright was that which met,",
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    "text": "About Maria Antoinette;",
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    "text": "And cool and fresh the dripping band",
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    "text": "Snatched from the wave of Hildebrand;",
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    "text": "But better mine, a little thread",
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