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    "text": "Pipit sate upright in her chair",
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    "text": "Some distance from where I was sitting;",
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    "text": "Views of the Oxford Colleges",
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    "text": "An Invitation to the Dance.",
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    "text": "I shall not want Honour in Heaven",
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    "text": "For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney",
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    "text": "I shall not want Capital in Heaven",
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    "text": "For I shall meet Sir Alfred Mond:",
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    "text": "We two shall lie together, lapt",
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    "text": "I shall not want Society in Heaven,",
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    "text": "Lucretia Borgia shall be my Bride;",
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    "text": "Her anecdotes will be more amusing",
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    "text": "Than Pipit’s experience could provide.",
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    "text": "I shall not want Pipit in Heaven:",
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    "text": "Madame Blavatsky will instruct me",
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    "text": "But where is the penny world I bought",
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    "text": "The red-eyed scavengers are creeping",
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    "text": "From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green;",
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    "text": "Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps.",
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    "text": "Over buttered scones and crumpets",
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    "text": "Weeping, weeping multitudes",
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