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    "text": "My Martial owns a garden, famed to please,",
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   {
    "text": "Beyond the glades of the Hesperides;",
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   {
    "text": "Along Janiculum lies the chosen block",
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   {
    "text": "Where the cool grottos trench the hanging rock.",
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   {
    "text": "The moderate summit, something plain and bare,",
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   {
    "text": "Tastes overhead of a serener air;",
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   {
    "text": "And while the clouds besiege the vales below,",
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   {
    "text": "Keeps the clear heaven and doth with sunshine glow.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To the June stars that circle in the skies",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The dainty roofs of that tall villa rise.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hence do the seven imperial hills appear;",
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   {
    "text": "And you may view the whole of Rome from here;",
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    "text": "Beyond, the Alban and the Tuscan hills;",
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    "text": "And the cool groves and the cool falling rills,",
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   {
    "text": "Rubre Fidenae, and with virgin blood",
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   {
    "text": "Anointed once Perenna’s orchard wood.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thence the Flaminian, the Salarian way,",
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   {
    "text": "Stretch far broad below the dome of day;",
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   {
    "text": "And lo! the traveller toiling towards his home;",
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   {
    "text": "And all unheard, the chariot speeds to Rome!",
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   {
    "text": "For here no whisper of the wheels; and though",
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   {
    "text": "The Mulvian Bridge, above the Tiber’s flow,",
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    "text": "Hangs all in sight, and down the sacred stream",
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   {
    "text": "The sliding barges vanish like a dream,",
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   {
    "text": "The seaman’s shrilling pipe not enters here,",
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    "text": "Nor the rude cries of porters on the pier.",
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   {
    "text": "And if so rare the house, how rarer far",
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   {
    "text": "The welcome and the weal that therein are!",
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   {
    "text": "So free the access, the doors so widely thrown,",
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   {
    "text": "You half imagine all to be your own.",
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