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    "text": "Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!",
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   {
    "text": "The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled",
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    "text": "Above the tide of hours, trouble the air,",
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    "text": "And God’s bell buoyed to be the water’s care;",
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   {
    "text": "While hushed from fear, or loud with hope, a band",
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   {
    "text": "With blown, spray-dabbled hair gather at hand.",
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    "text": "I call, as they go by me one by one,",
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   {
    "text": "Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!",
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   {
    "text": "You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled",
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   {
    "text": "Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring",
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    "text": "The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.",
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   {
    "text": "Beauty grown sad with its eternity",
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   {
    "text": "Made you of us, and of the dim grey sea.",
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    "text": "Our long ships loose thought-woven sails and wait,",
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    "text": "For God has bid them share an equal fate;",
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    "text": "And when at last defeated in His wars,",
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    "text": "They have gone down under the same white stars,",
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   {
    "text": "We shall no longer hear the little cry",
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   {
    "text": "Of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die.",
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