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 "title": "The Separation",
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 "poet": "Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis",
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   {
    "text": "And they are gone⁠—that little band",
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   {
    "text": "Of friends⁠—the firm and true!",
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   {
    "text": "We feel the void which absence makes,",
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    "text": "With joy, and sorrow too.",
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   {
    "text": "We joy that duties call them forth,",
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   {
    "text": "Clad in an armor bright;",
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    "text": "With shield of faith, their surest guard,",
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    "text": "And sword of truth and light.",
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   {
    "text": "We bid God speed their parting steps,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And bless the righteous cause:⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Where’er the path of duty points,",
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    "text": "May duty never pause.",
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    "text": "And yet, we sorrow most of all,",
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    "text": "And from the heart deplore,",
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    "text": "That we perchance on earth again",
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    "text": "May see these friends no more.",
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    "text": "Their works shall live when other deeds,",
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   {
    "text": "Which ask a nation’s fame,",
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   {
    "text": "Have sank beneath Time’s whelming wave,",
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   {
    "text": "Unhonored and unnamed.",
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