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 "poet": "Robert W. Service",
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 "book": "Songs of a Sourdough",
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    "text": "Can you recall, dear comrade, when we tramped God’s land together,",
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   {
    "text": "And we sang the old, old Earth-song, for our youth was very sweet;",
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    "text": "When we drank and fought and lusted, as we mocked at tie and tether,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Along the road to Anywhere, the wide world at our feet.",
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   {
    "text": "Along the road to Anywhere, when each day had its story;",
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   {
    "text": "When time was yet our vassal, and life’s jest was still unstale;",
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   {
    "text": "When peace unfathomed filled our hearts as, bathed in amber glory,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Along the road to Anywhere we watched the sunsets pale.",
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   {
    "text": "Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster;",
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   {
    "text": "There’s hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so!",
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   {
    "text": "As on we tramped exultantly, and no man was our master,",
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    "text": "And no man guessed what dreams were ours, as swinging heel and toe,",
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    "text": "We tramped the road to Anywhere, the magic road to Anywhere,",
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    "text": "The tragic road to Anywhere, such dear, dim years ago.",
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