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    "text": "The dust of a hundred years",
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   {
    "text": "Is on thy breast,",
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   {
    "text": "And thy day and thy night of tears",
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   {
    "text": "Are centurine rest.",
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   {
    "text": "Thou to whom joy was dumb,",
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   {
    "text": "Life a broken rhyme,",
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   {
    "text": "Lo, thy smiling time is come,",
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    "text": "And our weeping time.",
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    "text": "Thou who hadst sponge and myrrh",
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    "text": "And a bitter cross,",
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    "text": "Smile, for the day is here",
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    "text": "That we know our loss;⁠—",
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    "text": "Loss of thine undone deed,",
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    "text": "Thy unfinished song,",
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    "text": "Th’ unspoken word for our need,",
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    "text": "Th’ unrighted wrong;",
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    "text": "Smile, for we weep, we weep,",
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   {
    "text": "For the unsoothed pain,",
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    "text": "The unbound wound burned deep,",
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    "text": "That we might gain.",
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   {
    "text": "Mother of sorrowful eyes",
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   {
    "text": "In the dead old days,",
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    "text": "Mother of many sighs,",
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    "text": "Of pain-shod ways;",
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    "text": "Mother of resolute feet",
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    "text": "Through all the thorns,",
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    "text": "Mother soul-strong, soul-sweet⁠—",
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    "text": "Lo, after storms",
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    "text": "Have broken and beat thy dust",
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    "text": "For a hundred years,",
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    "text": "Thy memory is made just,",
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    "text": "And the just man hears.",
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    "text": "Thy children kneel and repeat:",
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    "text": "“Though dust be dust,",
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    "text": "Though sod and coffin and sheet",
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    "text": "And moth and rust",
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    "text": "Have folded and molded and pressed,",
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    "text": "Yet they cannot kill;",
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    "text": "In the heart of the world at rest",
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    "text": "She liveth still.”",
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