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"ref": "1601, William Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle:",
"text": "Let the priest in surplice white/That defunctive music can/ Be the death-divining swan/ Lest the requiem lack his right.",
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"ref": "1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 13:",
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