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    "text": "Tread not the earth where lies her youthful form,",
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   {
    "text": "Grow violets, sweet violets, above that cherished mound;",
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   {
    "text": "Bid zephyrs softly whisper in accents sweet and low,",
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    "text": "Not dead, not lost, but only gone a little while before.",
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    "text": "So, I, though bowed in anguish, yield her spirit to its God,",
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    "text": "And meekly clasp the smiting hand, and kiss the chast’ning rod;",
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    "text": "May I, when time is over, greet thee on the other shore,",
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    "text": "To live and love for aye and aye, where partings are no more.",
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