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      "text": "If you in the morning\n\nThrow minutes away,\n\nYou can't pick them up\n\nIn the course of a day.\n\nYou may hurry and scurry,\n\nAnd flurry and worry,\n\nYou've lost them forever,\n\nForever and aye.",
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