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    "text": "They tell me, lady, that today",
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   {
    "text": "On that unknown Australian strand⁠—",
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    "text": "Some time ago, so far away⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Another lady joined the band.",
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    "text": "She joined the company of those",
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    "text": "Lovelily dowered, nobly planned,",
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    "text": "Who, smiling, still forgive their foes",
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    "text": "And keep their friends in close command.",
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    "text": "She, lady, as I learn, was one",
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    "text": "Among the many rarely good;",
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    "text": "And destined still to be a sun",
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    "text": "Through every dark and rainy mood:⁠—",
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    "text": "She, as they told me, far had come,",
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    "text": "By sea and land, o’er many a rood:⁠—",
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    "text": "Admired by all, beloved by some,",
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    "text": "She was yourself, I understood.",
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    "text": "But, compliment apart and free",
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    "text": "From all constraint of verses, may",
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   {
    "text": "Goodness and honour, grace and glee,",
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   {
    "text": "Attend you ever on your way⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Up to the measure of your will,",
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    "text": "Beyond all power of mine to say⁠—",
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    "text": "As she and I desire you still,",
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    "text": "Miss Cornish, on your natal day.",
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