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    "text": "Ages and ages returning at intervals,",
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    "text": "Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet,",
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    "text": "I, chanter of Adamic songs,",
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    "text": "Through the new garden the West, the great cities calling,",
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    "text": "Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these, offering myself,",
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