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    "text": "“O monstrous, dead, unprofitable world,",
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    "text": "A voice oracular hath peal’d to-day,",
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    "text": "To-day a hero’s banner is unfurl’d.",
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    "text": "Hast thou no lip for welcome?” So I said.",
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    "text": "Man after man, the world smil’d and pass’d by:",
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    "text": "A smile of wistful incredulity",
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    "text": "Scornful, and strange, and sorrowful; and full",
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    "text": "Of bitter knowledge. Yet the Will is free:",
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    "text": "Strong is the Soul, and wise, and beautiful:",
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    "text": "The seeds of godlike power are in us still:",
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    "text": "Gods are we, Bards, Saints, Heroes, if we will.⁠—",
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