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   {
    "text": "As one by one withdraw the lofty actors,",
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   {
    "text": "From that great play on history’s stage eterne,",
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   {
    "text": "That lurid, partial act of war and peace⁠—of old and new contending,",
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   {
    "text": "Fought out through wrath, fears, dark dismays, and many a long suspense;",
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    "text": "All past⁠—and since, in countless graves receding, mellowing,",
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   {
    "text": "Victor’s and vanquish’d⁠—Lincoln’s and Lee’s⁠—now thou with them,",
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    "text": "Man of the mighty days⁠—and equal to the days!",
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   {
    "text": "Thou from the prairies!⁠—tangled and many-vein’d and hard has been thy part,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To admiration has it been enacted!",
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