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    "text": "Facing west from California’s shores,",
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   {
    "text": "Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,",
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   {
    "text": "I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar,",
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   {
    "text": "Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled;",
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   {
    "text": "For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere,",
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    "text": "From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero,",
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    "text": "From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands,",
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    "text": "Long having wander’d since, round the earth having wander’d,",
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    "text": "Now I face home again, very pleas’d and joyous,",
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   {
    "text": "(But where is what I started for so long ago?",
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   {
    "text": "And why is it yet unfound?)",
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