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 "subtitle": "Lines Written for Miss Story’s Album",
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    "text": "The armless Vatican Cupid",
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    "text": "Hangs down his beautiful head;",
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    "text": "For the priests have got him in prison,",
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    "text": "But see, his shaven oppressors",
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    "text": "Begin to quake and disband!",
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    "text": "And The Times, that bright Apollo,",
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    "text": "Proclaims salvation at hand.",
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   {
    "text": "“And what,” cries Cupid, “will save us?”",
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    "text": "Says Apollo: “Modernise Rome!",
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    "text": "What inns! Your streets, too, how narrow!",
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    "text": "Too much of palace and dome!",
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    "text": "“O learn of London, whose paupers",
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    "text": "Are not pushed out by the swells!",
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    "text": "Wide streets with fine double trottoirs;",
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    "text": "And then⁠—the London hotels!”",
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    "text": "The armless Vatican Cupid",
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    "text": "Hangs down his head as before.",
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    "text": "Through centuries past it has hung so,",
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    "text": "And will through centuries more.",
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