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    "text": "Dear Craoibhin Aoibhin, look into our case.",
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   {
    "text": "When we are high and airy hundreds say",
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    "text": "That if we hold that flight they’ll leave the place,",
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    "text": "So bitterly, you’d dream they longed to look",
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    "text": "All their lives through into some drift of wings.",
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    "text": "You’ve dandled them and fed them from the book",
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    "text": "And know them to the bone; impart to us⁠—",
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    "text": "We’ll keep the secret⁠—a new trick to please.",
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    "text": "Is there a bridle for this Proteus",
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    "text": "That turns and changes like his draughty seas?",
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    "text": "Or is there none, most popular of men,",
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