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"text": "Which I am forbidden to see. I do not find",
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"text": "The Hanged Man. Fear death by water.",
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"text": "I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring.",
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"text": "Thank you. If you see dear Mrs. Equitone,",
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"text": "Tell her I bring the horoscope myself:",
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"text": "One must be so careful these days.",
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"text": "Unreal City,",
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"text": "Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,",
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"text": "Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,",
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"text": "And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.",
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"text": "Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,",
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"text": "To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours",
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"text": "With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.",
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"text": "There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying “Stetson!",
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"text": "“You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!",
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"text": "“That corpse you planted last year in your garden,",
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"text": "“Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?",
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"text": "“Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?",
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"text": "“Oh keep the Dog far hence, that’s friend to men,",
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"text": "“Or with his nails he’ll dig it up again!",
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"text": "“You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable—mon frère!”",
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"text": "And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air",
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"text": "In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,",
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"text": "Flung their smoke into the laquearia,",
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"text": "Huge sea-wood fed with copper",
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"text": "Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone,",
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"text": "In which sad light a carvèd dolphin swam.",
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"text": "Above the antique mantel was displayed",
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"text": "Filled all the desert with inviolable voice",
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"text": "And still she cried, and still the world pursues,",
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"text": "“My nerves are bad tonight. Yes, bad. Stay with me.",
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"text": "“Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak.",
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"text": "“What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?",
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"text": "“I never know what you are thinking. Think.”",
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"text": "I think we are in rats’ alley",
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"text": "Where the dead men lost their bones.",
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"text": "“What is that noise?”",
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"text": "The wind under the door.",
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"text": "“What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?”",
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"text": "Nothing again nothing.",
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"text": "“Do",
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"text": "“You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember",
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"text": "“Nothing?”",
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"text": "I remember",
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"text": "Those are pearls that were his eyes.",
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"text": "“Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”",
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"text": "But",
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"text": "O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—",
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"text": "It’s so elegant",
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"text": "So intelligent",
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"text": "“What shall I do now? What shall I do?”",
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"text": "“I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street",
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"text": "“With my hair down, so. What shall we do tomorrow?",
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"text": "“What shall we ever do?”",
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"text": "The hot water at ten.",
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"text": "And if it rains, a closed car at four.",
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"text": "And we shall play a game of chess,",
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"text": "Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.",
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"text": "When Lil’s husband got demobbed, I said—",
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"text": "I didn’t mince my words, I said to her myself,",
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"text": "Hurry up please it’s time",
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"text": "Now Albert’s coming back, make yourself a bit smart.",
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"text": "He’ll want to know what you done with that money he gave you",
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"text": "To get yourself some teeth. He did, I was there.",
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"text": "You have them all out, Lil, and get a nice set,",
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"text": "He said, I swear, I can’t bear to look at you.",
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"text": "And no more can’t I, I said, and think of poor Albert,",
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"text": "He’s been in the army four years, he wants a good time,",
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"text": "And if you don’t give it him, there’s others will, I said.",
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"text": "Oh is there, she said. Something o’ that, I said.",
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"text": "Then I’ll know who to thank, she said, and give me a straight look.",
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"text": "Hurry up please it’s time",
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"text": "If you don’t like it you can get on with it, I said.",
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"text": "Others can pick and choose if you can’t.",
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"text": "But if Albert makes off, it won’t be for lack of telling.",
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"text": "You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique.",
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"text": "(And her only thirty-one.)",
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"text": "I can’t help it, she said, pulling a long face,",
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"text": "It’s them pills I took, to bring it off, she said.",
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"text": "(She’s had five already, and nearly died of young George.)",
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"text": "The chemist said it would be all right, but I’ve never been the same.",
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"text": "You are a proper fool, I said.",
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"text": "Well, if Albert won’t leave you alone, there it is, I said,",
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"text": "What you get married for if you don’t want children?",
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"text": "Hurry up please it’s time",
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"text": "Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,",
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"text": "And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot—",
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"text": "Hurry up please it’s time",
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"text": "Hurry up please it’s time",
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"text": "Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.",
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"text": "Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.",
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"text": "Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.",
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"text": "The river’s tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf",
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"text": "Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind",
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"text": "Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed.",
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"text": "Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.",
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"text": "The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,",
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"text": "Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends",
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"text": "Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed.",
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"text": "And their friends, the loitering heirs of city directors;",
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"text": "Departed, have left no addresses.",
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"text": "By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept …",
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"text": "Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song,",
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"text": "Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long.",
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"text": "But at my back in a cold blast I hear",
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"text": "A rat crept softly through the vegetation",
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"text": "While I was fishing in the dull canal",
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"text": "On a winter evening round behind the gashouse",
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"text": "Musing upon the king my brother’s wreck",
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"text": "And on the king my father’s death before him.",
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"text": "White bodies naked on the low damp ground",
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"text": "And bones cast in a little low dry garret,",
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"text": "Rattled by the rat’s foot only, year to year.",
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"text": "But at my back from time to time I hear",
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"text": "The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring",
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"text": "Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring.",
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"text": "O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter",
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"text": "And on her daughter",
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"text": "They wash their feet in soda water",
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"text": "Et O ces voix d’enfants, chantant dans la coupole!",
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"text": "Twit twit twit",
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"text": "Jug jug jug jug jug jug",
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"text": "So rudely forc’d.",
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"text": "Tereu",
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"text": "Unreal City",
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"text": "Under the brown fog of a winter noon",
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"text": "Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants",
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"text": "C.i.f. London: documents at sight,",
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"text": "At the violet hour, when the eyes and back",
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"text": "Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits",
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"text": "Like a taxi throbbing waiting,",
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"text": "I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,",
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"text": "Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see",
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"text": "At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives",
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"text": "Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.",
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"text": "I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs",
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"text": "Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest—",
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"text": "I too awaited the expected guest.",
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"text": "He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,",
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"text": "One of the low on whom assurance sits",
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"text": "The time is now propitious, as he guesses,",
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"text": "The meal is ended, she is bored and tired,",
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"text": "Endeavours to engage her in caresses",
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"text": "Which still are unreproved, if undesired.",
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"text": "Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;",
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"text": "His vanity requires no response,",
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"text": "And walked among the lowest of the dead.)",
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"text": "Bestows one final patronising kiss,",
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"text": "She turns and looks a moment in the glass,",
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"text": "Hardly aware of her departed lover;",
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"text": "Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:",
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"text": "“Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over.”",
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"text": "When lovely woman stoops to folly and",
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"text": "Paces about her room again, alone,",
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"text": "She smooths her hair with automatic hand,",
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"text": "“This music crept by me upon the waters”",
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"text": "And along the Strand, up Queen Victoria Street.",
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"text": "O City city, I can sometimes hear",
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"text": "Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street,",
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"text": "The pleasant whining of a mandoline",
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"text": "Of Magnus Martyr hold",
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"text": "Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.",
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"text": "The river sweats",
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"text": "Oil and tar",
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"text": "The barges drift",
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"text": "With the turning tide",
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"text": "Red sails",
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"text": "Wide",
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"text": "To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.",
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"text": "The barges wash",
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"text": "Drifting logs",
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"text": "Down Greenwich reach",
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"text": "Past the Isle of Dogs.",
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"text": "Weialala leia",
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"text": "Wallala leialala",
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"text": "Elizabeth and Leicester",
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"text": "Beating oars",
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"text": "The stern was formed",
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"text": "A gilded shell",
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"text": "Red and gold",
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"text": "The brisk swell",
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"text": "Rippled both shores",
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"text": "Southwest wind",
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"text": "Carried down stream",
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"text": "The peal of bells",
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"text": "White towers",
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"text": "Weialala leia",
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"text": "“Trams and dusty trees.",
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"text": "Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew",
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"text": "Undid me. By Richmond I raised my knees",
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"text": "“My feet are at Moorgate, and my heart",
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"text": "Under my feet. After the event",
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"text": "He wept. He promised ‘a new start.’",
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"text": "I made no comment. What should I resent?”",
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"text": "“On Margate Sands.",
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"text": "I can connect",
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"text": "Nothing with nothing.",
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"text": "The broken fingernails of dirty hands.",
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"text": "My people humble people who expect",
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"text": "Nothing.”",
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"text": "To Carthage then I came",
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"text": "Burning burning burning burning",
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"text": "O Lord Thou pluckest me out",
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"text": "O Lord Thou pluckest",
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"text": "burning",
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"text": "Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,",
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"text": "Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell",
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"text": "And the profit and loss.",
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"text": "A current under sea",
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"text": "Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell",
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"text": "He passed the stages of his age and youth",
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"text": "Entering the whirlpool.",
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"text": "Gentile or Jew",
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"text": "O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,",
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"text": "Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.",
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"text": "After the torchlight red on sweaty faces",
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"text": "After the frosty silence in the gardens",
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"text": "After the agony in stony places",
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"text": "The shouting and the crying",
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"text": "Gathered far distant, over Himavant.",
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"text": "Then spoke the thunder",
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"text": "Da",
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"text": "Datta: what have we given?",
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"text": "My friend, blood shaking my heart",
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"text": "The awful daring of a moment’s surrender",
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"text": "Which an age of prudence can never retract",
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"text": "By this, and this only, we have existed",
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"text": "Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.",
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