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    "text": "Take not my hand as mine alone⁠—",
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    "text": "You do not trust to me⁠—",
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    "text": "Follow not me, who only trace",
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    "text": "Stoop-head the prints of those",
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    "text": "I cannot lead who follow⁠—I",
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