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    "text": "Polyphiloprogenitive",
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    "text": "The sapient sutlers of the Lord",
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   {
    "text": "Drift across the windowpanes.",
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    "text": "In the beginning was the Word.",
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    "text": "In the beginning was the Word.",
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    "text": "Superfetation of τὸ ἔν,",
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    "text": "And at the mensual turn of time",
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    "text": "Produced enervate Origen.",
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    "text": "A painter of the Umbrian school",
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    "text": "Designed upon a gesso ground",
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    "text": "The nimbus of the Baptized God.",
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    "text": "The wilderness is cracked and browned",
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    "text": "But through the water pale and thin",
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    "text": "Still shine the unoffending feet",
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    "text": "And there above the painter set",
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    "text": "The Father and the Paraclete.",
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    "text": "The sable presbyters approach",
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    "text": "The avenue of penitence;",
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    "text": "The young are red and pustular",
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    "text": "Clutching piaculative pence.",
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    "text": "Under the penitential gates",
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    "text": "Sustained by staring Seraphim",
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    "text": "Where the souls of the devout",
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    "text": "Along the garden-wall the bees",
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    "text": "With hairy bellies pass between",
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    "text": "The staminate and pistilate,",
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    "text": "Blest office of the epicene.",
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    "text": "Sweeney shifts from ham to ham",
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    "text": "Stirring the water in his bath.",
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    "text": "The masters of the subtle schools",
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