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    "text": "With its cloud of skirmishers in advance,",
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    "text": "Glittering dimly, toiling under the sun⁠—the dust-cover’d men,",
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    "text": "In columns rise and fall to the undulations of the ground,",
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    "text": "With artillery interspers’d⁠—the wheels rumble, the horses sweat,",
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    "text": "As the army corps advances.",
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