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 1   T-I| turning back towards my dear ones.~At last I said: ‘Why hurry?
 2   T-I|      my house, and the sweet ones in that faithful home,~and
 3 T-III|   leaves circling the august ones?~Is it because this house
 4  T-IV|     added others to the real ones.~There were none you preferred –
 5  T-IV|     years, pain to the later ones.~Now after half a century
 6   T-V|     years:~the pain of great ones increases with time.~For
 7   T-V|     I still think the recent ones to be worth no less.~So,
 8  ExII|  book’s no less sad than the ones that went before.~Same theme,
 9  ExII|    as I remember,~except the ones that have harmed their author,~
10  ExII|     of ancient heroes to me,~ones who endured their fate with
11  ExII|      that they were not idle ones.~He used to promise that
12 ExIII|   birds sing, unless they’re ones from far forests,~drinking
13 ExIII|      the confession, learned ones, but that wasn’t the object:~
14  IBIS|     the open fields~like the ones that delayed a father’s
15   Ind|       ironically ‘The Kindly Ones’). The Three Sisters, were