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    "text": "As at thy portals also death,",
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    "text": "Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds,",
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   {
    "text": "To memories of my mother, to the divine blending, maternity,",
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   {
    "text": "To her, buried and gone, yet buried not, gone not from me,",
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   {
    "text": "(I see again the calm benignant face fresh and beautiful still,",
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   {
    "text": "I sit by the form in the coffin,",
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   {
    "text": "I kiss and kiss convulsively again the sweet old lips, the cheeks, the closed eyes in the coffin;)",
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   {
    "text": "To her, the ideal woman, practical, spiritual, of all of earth, life, love, to me the best,",
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    "text": "I grave a monumental line, before I go, amid these songs,",
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    "text": "And set a tombstone here.",
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