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    "text": "More experiences and sights, stranger, than you’d think for;",
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    "text": "Times again, now mostly just after sunrise or before sunset,",
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    "text": "Sometimes in spring, oftener in autumn, perfectly clear weather, in plain sight,",
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    "text": "Camps far or near, the crowded streets of cities and the shop-fronts,",
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    "text": "(Account for it or not⁠—credit or not⁠—it is all true,",
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    "text": "And my mate there could tell you the like⁠—we have often confab’d about it,)",
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    "text": "People and scenes, animals, trees, colors and lines, plain as could be,",
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    "text": "Farms and dooryards of home, paths border’d with box, lilacs in corners,",
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    "text": "Weddings in churches, thanksgiving dinners, returns of long-absent sons,",
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    "text": "Glum funerals, the crape-veil’d mother and the daughters,",
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    "text": "Trials in courts, jury and judge, the accused in the box,",
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    "text": "Contestants, battles, crowds, bridges, wharves,",
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    "text": "Now and then mark’d faces of sorrow or joy,",
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    "text": "(I could pick them out this moment if I saw them again,)",
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    "text": "Show’d to me just aloft to the right in the sky-edge,",
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