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 "epigraph": "To you particularly, and to all the Volscians / Great hurt and mischief.",
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    "text": "Tired",
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    "text": "With silence from the sacred wood",
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    "text": "And bubbling of the uninspired",
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    "text": "Mephitic river.",
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    "text": "Tortured.",
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    "text": "When the bridegroom smoothed his hair",
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    "text": "There was blood upon the bed.",
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    "text": "Morning was already late.",
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    "text": "Children singing in the orchard",
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    "text": "(Io Hymen, Hymenæe)",
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    "text": "Tortuous.",
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    "text": "By arrangement with Perseus",
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    "text": "The fooled resentment of the dragon",
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    "text": "Sailing before the wind at dawn.",
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    "text": "Golden apocalypse. Indignant",
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    "text": "At the cheap extinction of his taking-off.",
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    "text": "Now lies he there",
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    "text": "Tip to tip washed beneath Charles’ Wagon.",
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