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      "text": "And oft-times cometh our wise Lord God, master of every trade,\n\nAnd tells them tales of His daily toil, of Edens newly made;\n\nAnd they rise to their feet as He passes by, gentlemen unafraid.",
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      "text": "We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,\n\nBut single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;\n\nAn' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,\n\nWhy, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.",
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      "text": "We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,\n\nWe are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,\n\nAnd the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.\n\nGod help us, for we knew the worst too young!",
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