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    "text": "Over and through the burial chant,",
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    "text": "To me come interpolation sounds not in the show⁠—plainly to me, crowding up the aisle and from the window,",
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    "text": "The scout call’d up and forward⁠—the general mounted and his aids around him⁠—the new-brought word⁠—the instantaneous order issued;",
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