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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "This sentence have I left behind:",
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    "text": "An aching body, and a mind",
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   {
    "text": "Not wholly clear, nor wholly blind,",
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    "text": "Too keen to rest, too weak to find,",
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    "text": "That travails sore, and brings forth wind,",
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   {
    "text": "Are God’s worst portion to mankind.",
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   {
    "text": "Ask not my name, O friend!",
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   {
    "text": "That Being only, which hath known each man",
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   {
    "text": "From the beginning, can",
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    "text": "Remember each unto the end.",
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