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    "text": "Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent,)",
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    "text": "Enough that they’ve survived at all⁠—long life’s unflinching ones!",
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    "text": "Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all⁠—in that alone,",
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    "text": "True conquerors o’er all the rest.",
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