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    "text": "Dear Uncle Jim, this garden ground,",
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    "text": "That now you smoke your pipe around,",
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    "text": "Here we had best on tip-toe tread,",
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    "text": "While I for safety march ahead,",
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    "text": "But yonder, see! apart and high,",
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    "text": "Frozen Siberia lies; where I,",
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