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    "text": "Welcome, Brazilian brother⁠—thy ample place is ready;",
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   {
    "text": "A loving hand⁠—a smile from the north⁠—a sunny instant hail!",
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   {
    "text": "(Let the future care for itself, where it reveals its troubles, impedimentas,",
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   {
    "text": "Ours, ours the present throe, the democratic aim, the acceptance and the faith;)",
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   {
    "text": "To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck⁠—to thee from us the expectant eye,",
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    "text": "Thou cluster free! thou brilliant lustrous one! thou, learning well,",
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    "text": "The true lesson of a nation’s light in the sky,",
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    "text": "(More shining than the Cross, more than the Crown,)",
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    "text": "The height to be superb humanity.",
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