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  | Alice Goodman's libretto for the opera Nixon in China
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  | I can keep still. I can say nothing for a while. While the sparks die high in the air, the sun moves on.
Nothing I fear has ever harmed me, why should you? Marshall your forces, I'll lie low. The dought has made me thin and strong.
When they took off their coats, and hung them over branches, and the pick scraped the eroded ground, I shook with pure excitement.
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