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    "text": "I do not wish to at‑tri‑bute",
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    "text": "Importance to the common Coot,",
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    "text": "Or mud-hen, whom most persons scorn,",
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   {
    "text": "Because she chanced to be “Earth-born.”",
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    "text": "The small Australian Bandicoots",
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    "text": "Are said to spring from Kanga‑roots,",
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    "text": "Which roots, as you of course foresee,",
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    "text": "Are those of their ancestral tree,",
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   {
    "text": "The motto of which vegetable",
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   {
    "text": "Is just “O possum” (I am able).",
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