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 "title": "Earth, My Likeness",
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    "text": "Earth, my likeness,",
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    "text": "Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,",
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    "text": "I now suspect that is not all;",
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    "text": "For an athlete is enamour’d of me, and I of him,",
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    "text": "But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligible to burst forth,",
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