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    "text": "What you give me I cheerfully accept,",
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    "text": "A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money, as I rendezvous with my poems,",
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    "text": "A traveler’s lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,⁠—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?",
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   {
    "text": "For I myself am not one who bestows nothing upon man and woman,",
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    "text": "For I bestow upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts of the universe.",
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