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 "title": "On a Tree Fallen Across the Road",
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    "text": "The tree the tempest with a crash of wood",
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    "text": "Insisting always on our own way so.",
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    "text": "She likes to halt us in our runner tracks,",
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    "text": "And yet she knows obstruction is in vain:",
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    "text": "We will not be put off the final goal",
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