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    "text": "O’er the sweet, quiet homes in the silent grave-city,",
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   {
    "text": "Softly the dewdrops, the night-tears, fall;",
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   {
    "text": "Broadly about, like the wide arms of pity,",
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   {
    "text": "The silver-shot darkness lies over all.",
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   {
    "text": "Heroes, asleep ’neath the red-hearted rose-wreaths,",
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   {
    "text": "Leaf-crowned with honor, flower-crowned with rest,",
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   {
    "text": "Gently above you each moon-dripping bough breathes",
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   {
    "text": "A far-echoed whisper, “Sleep well; ye are blest.”",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Oh! never, as long as the heart pulses quicker",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At the dear name of Country may yours be forgot;",
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   {
    "text": "Nor may we, till the last puny life spark shall flicker,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your deeds from the tablets of Memory blot!",
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   {
    "text": "Spirits afloat in the night-shrouds that bound us,",
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   {
    "text": "Souls of the “Has-Been” and of the “To-Be,”",
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   {
    "text": "Keep the fair light of Liberty shining around us,",
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   {
    "text": "Till our souls may go back to the mighty soul-sea.",
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