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   {
    "text": "Carolina mourns to-day. For he, the gifted",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Son of her adoption, is no more. The voice",
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   {
    "text": "That stirred the bosoms of her sons, and",
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   {
    "text": "Made her ramparts ring from mount to",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sea-board, is hushed in death. His",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Noble form, and nobler mien that",
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   {
    "text": "Never faltered ’mid the cannon’s",
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   {
    "text": "Roar, lies motionless.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "So Carolina weeps. ’Tis meet she should⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her chieftain lieth low. In this",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Grand, old City by the Sea, this Venice",
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   {
    "text": "Of the Southland. The home he loved",
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    "text": "So well. When the grey morn breaks,",
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   {
    "text": "And when the twilight lingers, they",
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    "text": "Chant in low, sweet music, evening",
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   {
    "text": "Vespers for his soul.",
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    "text": "Then, Carolinians, build a monument for him;",
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   {
    "text": "But not on marble cold. Not on",
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   {
    "text": "Towering dome or polished shaft,",
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   {
    "text": "Should his memory be engraved. But",
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   {
    "text": "In the hearts of those he loved and",
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   {
    "text": "Served, should immortelles, perpetual, bloom;",
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    "text": "And incense, fragrant, ever rise",
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    "text": "To his memory.",
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   {
    "text": "Requiescat in Pace.",
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