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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Not youth pertains to me,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor delicatesse, I cannot beguile the time with talk,",
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   {
    "text": "Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant,",
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    "text": "In the learn’d coterie sitting constrain’d and still, for learning inures not to me,",
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    "text": "Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me⁠—yet there are two or three things inure to me,",
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   {
    "text": "I have nourish’d the wounded and sooth’d many a dying soldier,",
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    "text": "And at intervals waiting or in the midst of camp,",
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    "text": "Composed these songs.",
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