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 "title": "CXLIII",
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    "text": "Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch",
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    "text": "One of her feather’d creatures broke away,",
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    "text": "Sets down her babe and makes all swift dispatch",
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    "text": "In pursuit of the thing she would have stay,",
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    "text": "Whilst her neglected child holds her in chase,",
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    "text": "Cries to catch her whose busy care is bent",
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    "text": "To follow that which flies before her face,",
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    "text": "Not prizing her poor infant’s discontent;",
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    "text": "So runn’st thou after that which flies from thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Whilst I thy babe chase thee afar behind;",
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    "text": "But if thou catch thy hope, turn back to me,",
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    "text": "And play the mother’s part, kiss me, be kind:",
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    "text": "So will I pray that thou mayst have thy “Will,”",
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    "text": "If thou turn back, and my loud crying still.",
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