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    "text": "As seamen on the seas",
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   {
    "text": "With song and dance descry",
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    "text": "Adown the morning breeze",
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    "text": "An islet in the sky:",
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    "text": "In Araby the dry,",
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    "text": "As o’er the sandy plain",
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    "text": "The panting camels cry",
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    "text": "So all things over earth",
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    "text": "And rarity and worth",
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    "text": "Pass, arm in arm, away;",
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    "text": "And even so, today,",
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    "text": "The printer and the bard,",
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    "text": "In pressless Davos, pray",
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    "text": "Their sixpenny reward.",
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