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    "text": "When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States",
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    "text": "His laughter tinkled among the teacups.",
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    "text": "I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure among the birch-trees,",
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    "text": "And of Priapus in the shrubbery",
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    "text": "Gaping at the lady in the swing.",
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    "text": "In the palace of Mrs. Phlaccus, at Professor Channing-Cheetah’s",
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    "text": "He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.",
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    "text": "Like the old man of the sea’s",
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    "text": "Where worried bodies of drowned men drift down in the green silence,",
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    "text": "I looked for the head of Mr. Apollinax rolling under a chair",
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    "text": "With seaweed in its hair.",
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    "text": "I heard the beat of centaur’s hoofs over the hard turf",
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    "text": "As his dry and passionate talk devoured the afternoon.",
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    "text": "“He is a charming man”⁠—“But after all what did he mean?”⁠—",
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    "text": "“His pointed ears⁠ ⁠… He must be unbalanced,”⁠—",
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    "text": "“There was something he said that I might have challenged.”",
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    "text": "Of dowager Mrs. Phlaccus, and Professor and Mrs. Cheetah",
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