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    "text": "Requiem, requiem, requiem,",
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   {
    "text": "Blood-red blossom of poison stem",
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    "text": "Broken for Man,",
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    "text": "Swamp-sunk leafage and dungeon bloom,",
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    "text": "Seeded bearer of royal doom,",
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   {
    "text": "What now is the ban?",
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    "text": "What to thee is the island grave?",
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    "text": "With desert wind and desolate wave",
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   {
    "text": "Will they silence Death?",
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    "text": "Can they weight thee now with the heaviest stone?",
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   {
    "text": "Can they lay aught on thee with “Be alone,”",
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    "text": "That hast conquered breath?",
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    "text": "Lo, “it is finished”⁠—a man for a king!",
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    "text": "Mark you well who have done this thing:",
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   {
    "text": "The flower has roots;",
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   {
    "text": "Bitter and rank grow the things of the sea;",
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    "text": "Ye shall know what sap ran thick in the tree",
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    "text": "When ye pluck its fruits.",
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    "text": "Requiem, requiem, requiem,",
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    "text": "Sleep on, sleep on, accursed of them",
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   {
    "text": "Who work our pain;",
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    "text": "A wild Marsh-blossom shall blow again",
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    "text": "From a buried root in the slime of men,",
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    "text": "On the day of the Great Red Rain.",
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