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    "text": "Last night we had a thunderstorm in style.",
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    "text": "The wild lightning streaked the airs,",
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    "text": "As though my God fell down a pair of stairs.",
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    "text": "The thunder boomed and bounded all the while;",
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   {
    "text": "All cried and sat by waterside and stile⁠—",
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    "text": "To mop our brow had been our chief of cares.",
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    "text": "I lay in bed with a Voltairean smile,",
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    "text": "The terror of good, simple guilty pairs,",
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    "text": "And made this rondeau in ironic style.",
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    "text": "Last night we had a thunderstorm in style.",
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    "text": "Our God the Father fell downstairs,",
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   {
    "text": "The stark blue lightning went its flight the while,",
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   {
    "text": "The very rain you might have heard a mile⁠—",
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    "text": "The strenuous faithful buckled to their prayers.",
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