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    "text": "My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;",
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    "text": "It’s time to take the window to see Leerie going by;",
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    "text": "For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat,",
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    "text": "Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea,",
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    "text": "And my papa’s a banker and as rich as he can be;",
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    "text": "But I, when I am stronger, and can choose what I’m to do,",
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    "text": "O Leerie, I’ll go round at night and light the lamps with you!",
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    "text": "For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door,",
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    "text": "And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;",
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    "text": "And O! before you hurry by with ladder and with light,",
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    "text": "O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him tonight!",
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