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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "To the East and to the West,",
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   {
    "text": "To the man of the Seaside State and of Pennsylvania,",
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   {
    "text": "To the Kanadian of the north, to the Southerner I love,",
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   {
    "text": "These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men,",
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   {
    "text": "I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb friendship, exaltè, previously unknown,",
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   {
    "text": "Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in all men.",
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