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    "text": "Lo, Victress on the peaks,",
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    "text": "Where thou with mighty brow regarding the world,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(The world O Libertad, that vainly conspired against thee,)",
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   {
    "text": "Out of its countless beleaguering toils, after thwarting them all,",
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   {
    "text": "Dominant, with the dazzling sun around thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Flauntest now unharm’d in immortal soundness and bloom⁠—lo, in these hours supreme,",
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    "text": "No poem proud, I chanting bring to thee, nor mastery’s rapturous verse,",
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    "text": "But a cluster containing night’s darkness and blood-dripping wounds,",
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