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    "text": "We uncommiserate pass into the night",
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    "text": "From the loud banquet, and departing leave",
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    "text": "A tremor in men’s memories, faint and sweet",
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    "text": "And frail as music. Features of our face,",
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    "text": "The tones of the voice, the touch of the loved hand,",
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    "text": "Perish and vanish, one by one, from earth:",
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    "text": "Meanwhile, in the hall of song, the multitude",
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    "text": "One ultimate survivor lingers on,",
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    "text": "And smiles, and to his ancient heart recalls",
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    "text": "The long forgotten. Ere the morrow die,",
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   {
    "text": "He too, returning, through the curtain comes,",
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    "text": "And the new age forgets us and goes on.",
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