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    "text": "A couple of manuscriptural erasures",
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    "text": "And here we have your deaf-mute",
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    "text": "Beseech him",
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    "text": "He will never with-hold so",
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    "text": "Completely",
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    "text": "The tight-rope stretched above commotion",
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    "text": "fend shadows are yours for the taking",
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    "text": "In the shattering city",
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