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    "text": "Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing,",
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    "text": "Where shall we adventure, today that we’re afloat,",
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    "text": "Hi! but here’s a squadron a-rowing on the sea⁠—",
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    "text": "Quick, and we’ll escape them, they’re as mad as they can be,",
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