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    "text": "Not the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;",
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    "text": "Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long,",
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    "text": "By deserts parch’d, snows chill’d, rivers wet, perseveres till he reaches his destination,",
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    "text": "More than I have charged myself, heeded or unheeded, to compose a march for these States,",
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    "text": "For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.",
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