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   {
    "text": "Mother and sire, to you do I commend",
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   {
    "text": "Tiny Erotion, who must now descend,",
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    "text": "Before hell’s bandog and hell’s gondolier.",
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    "text": "Of six hoar winters she had felt the cold,",
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    "text": "But lacked six days of being six years old.",
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    "text": "Now she must come, all playful, to that place",
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    "text": "Now lisping, as she used, of whence she came,",
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    "text": "Perchance she names and stumbles at my name.",
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    "text": "O’er these so fragile bones, let there be laid",
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    "text": "A plaything for a turf; and for that maid",
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    "text": "That ran so lightly footed in her mirth",
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    "text": "Upon thy breast⁠—lie lightly, mother earth!",
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