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    There the young saw me and made room for me, in deference to elders.
        The old rose and stood out of respect.
    The leaders stopped talking
        with their hands over their mouths.
10     The voices of nobles fell to a hush;
        their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

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the young men saw me and stepped aside(A)
    and the old men rose to their feet;(B)
the chief men refrained from speaking(C)
    and covered their mouths with their hands;(D)
10 the voices of the nobles were hushed,(E)
    and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.(F)

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