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    "text": "Link your arm in mine, my lad⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "You and I together,",
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   {
    "text": "You and I and all the rest",
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   {
    "text": "Shall face the winter weather.",
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    "text": "Some to good, and some to harm,",
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    "text": "Some to cheer the others,",
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   {
    "text": "All the world goes arm in arm,",
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    "text": "And all the men are brothers.",
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   {
    "text": "Fortune kicks us here and there,",
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   {
    "text": "Small our role in life, lad.",
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    "text": "Better paltry peace, howe’er,",
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   {
    "text": "Than hero-laurelled strife, lad.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "While there’s liquor to be had,",
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   {
    "text": "Deeply drain the bickers.",
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    "text": "Ocean plays at marbles, lad,",
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    "text": "With men of war for knickers.",
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   {
    "text": "Who will ever hear of me?",
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   {
    "text": "Who will hear of you, lad?",
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   {
    "text": "Devil take posterity",
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    "text": "And present people too, lad!",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "I have work enough to do,",
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   {
    "text": "Strength enough to do it⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "I have work and so have you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So put your shoulder to it!",
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    "text": "Some do half that I can do,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Some can do the double,",
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   {
    "text": "Some must rule for me and you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To save ourselves the trouble!",
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   {
    "text": "Who would envy yonder man",
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   {
    "text": "Decorated thus, lad?",
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   {
    "text": "We are workingmen for him,",
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   {
    "text": "And he’s an earl for us, lad!",
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