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    "text": "Not heaving from my ribb’d breast only,",
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   {
    "text": "Not in sighs at night in rage dissatisfied with myself,",
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   {
    "text": "Not in those long-drawn, ill-supprest sighs,",
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   {
    "text": "Not in many an oath and promise broken,",
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   {
    "text": "Not in my wilful and savage soul’s volition,",
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   {
    "text": "Not in the subtle nourishment of the air,",
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   {
    "text": "Not in this beating and pounding at my temples and wrists,",
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   {
    "text": "Not in the curious systole and diastole within which will one day cease,",
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   {
    "text": "Not in many a hungry wish told to the skies only,",
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   {
    "text": "Not in cries, laughter, defiances, thrown from me when alone far in the wilds,",
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   {
    "text": "Not in husky pantings through clinch’d teeth,",
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   {
    "text": "Not in sounded and resounded words, chattering words, echoes, dead words,",
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    "text": "Not in the murmurs of my dreams while I sleep,",
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    "text": "Nor the other murmurs of these incredible dreams of every day,",
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    "text": "Nor in the limbs and senses of my body that take you and dismiss you continually⁠—not there,",
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   {
    "text": "Not in any or all of them O adhesiveness! O pulse of my life!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs.",
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