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    "text": "One leaves his leaves at home",
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    "text": "being a mullen and sends up a lighthouse",
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   {
    "text": "to peer from: I will have my way,",
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   {
    "text": "yellow⁠—A mast with a lantern, ten",
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   {
    "text": "fifty, a hundred, smaller and smaller",
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   },
   {
    "text": "as they grow more⁠—Liar, liar, liar!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You come from her! I can smell djer-kiss",
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   },
   {
    "text": "on your clothes. Ha, ha! you come to me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "you⁠—I am a point of dew on a grass-stem.",
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   {
    "text": "Why are you sending heat down on me",
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   {
    "text": "from your lantern?⁠—You are cowdung, a",
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    "text": "dead stick with the bark off. She is",
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    "text": "squirting on us both. She has had her",
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   {
    "text": "hand on you!⁠—Well?⁠—She has defiled",
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    "text": "Me.⁠—Your leaves are dull, thick",
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    "text": "and hairy.⁠—Every hair on my body will",
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    "text": "hold you off from me. You are a",
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    "text": "dungcake, birdlime on a fencerail.⁠—",
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    "text": "I love you, straight, yellow",
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   {
    "text": "finger of God pointing to⁠—her!",
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    "text": "Liar, broken weed, duncake, you have⁠—",
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    "text": "I am a cricket waving his antenae",
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    "text": "and you are high, grey and straight. Ha!",
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