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    "text": "Burbank crossed a little bridge",
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    "text": "Descending at a small hotel;",
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    "text": "Princess Volupine arrived,",
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    "text": "They were together, and he fell.",
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    "text": "Passed seaward with the passing bell",
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    "text": "Slowly: the God Hercules",
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    "text": "Had left him, that had loved him well.",
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    "text": "The horses, under the axletree",
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    "text": "Beat up the dawn from Istria",
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    "text": "With even feet. Her shuttered barge",
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    "text": "But this or such was Bleistein’s way:",
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    "text": "A saggy bending of the knees",
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    "text": "A lustreless protrusive eye",
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    "text": "Stares from the protozoic slime",
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   {
    "text": "At a perspective of Canaletto.",
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    "text": "The smoky candle end of time",
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    "text": "Declines. On the Rialto once.",
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    "text": "The rats are underneath the piles.",
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    "text": "The jew is underneath the lot.",
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    "text": "Money in furs. The boatman smiles,",
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    "text": "Princess Volupine extends",
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    "text": "A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand",
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    "text": "To climb the waterstair. Lights, lights,",
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    "text": "She entertains Sir Ferdinand",
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    "text": "Klein. Who clipped the lion’s wings",
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