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  "text": "I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down\n\nor the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,\n\nthe pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,\n\nbefore I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.\n\nHe's carried my love away, the man who wed me first—\n\nmay he hold it tight, safeguard it in his grave.",
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    "text": "Sed mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat\n\nVel pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras,\n\nPallentis umbras Erebo noctemque profundam\n\nAnte, pudor, quam te violo aut tua iura resolvo.\n\nIlle meos, primus qui me sibi iunxit, amores\n\nAbstulit; ille habeat secum servetque sepulcro."
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