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      "text": "I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.You who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night!",
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      "text": "Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive.",
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