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    "text": "Strew on her roses, roses,",
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    "text": "In quiet she reposes:",
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    "text": "She bath’d it in smiles of glee.",
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    "text": "Her life was turning, turning,",
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    "text": "But for peace her soul was yearning,",
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    "text": "Her cabin’d, ample Spirit,",
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