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    "text": "The whole day thro’, in contempt and pity,",
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   {
    "text": "I pass your houses and beat my drum,",
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   {
    "text": "In the roar of people that go and come,",
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    "text": "In the sunlit streets of the city.",
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   {
    "text": "Hark! do you hear the ictus coming,",
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    "text": "Mid the roar and clatter of feet?",
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   {
    "text": "Hark! in the ebb and flow of the street",
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    "text": "Do you hear the sound of my drumming?",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Sun and the fluttering ribbons blind me;",
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   {
    "text": "But still I beat as I travel the town,",
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   {
    "text": "And still the recruits come manfully down,",
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   {
    "text": "And the march grows long behind me.",
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    "text": "In time to the drum the feet fall steady,",
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    "text": "The feet fall steady and firm to hear,",
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   {
    "text": "And we cry, as we march, that the goal is near,",
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   {
    "text": "For all men are heroes already!",
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