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    "text": "Yes, I remember, and still remember wailing",
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    "text": "Wind in the clouds and rainy sea-horizon,",
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    "text": "Empty and lit with a low nocturnal glimmer;",
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    "text": "How in the strong, deep-plunging, transatlantic",
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    "text": "Emigrant ship we sang our songs in chorus.",
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   {
    "text": "Piping, the gull flew by, the roaring billows",
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    "text": "Jammed and resounded round the mighty vessel;",
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    "text": "Infinite uproar, endless contradiction;",
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    "text": "Yet over all our chorus rose, reminding",
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    "text": "Wanderers here at sea of unforgotten",
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    "text": "Homes and the undying, old, memorial loves.",
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   {
    "text": "R. L. Stevenson, Esq.",
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    "text": "Here in the strong, deep-plunging transatlantic",
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    "text": "Emigrant ship the waves arose gigantic;",
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    "text": "Piping the gull flew by, the roaring billows",
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    "text": "Rose and appeared before the eye like pillows.",
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   {
    "text": "Piping the gull flew by, the roaring waves",
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    "text": "Rose and appeared from subter-ocean caves,",
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    "text": "And as across the smoothing sea we roam,",
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    "text": "Still and anon we sang our songs of home.",
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    "text": "Brown in his haste demanded this from me;",
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   {
    "text": "I in my leisure made the present verse.",
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