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Peasants and children gather around a ballad singer holding a sheet of paper beneath a large tree in a golden rural landscape

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A crowd of peasants, women, and children gathers on a dirt path beneath a large tree, turning toward a man in a dark cap who holds up a sheet of paper and sings. Hazy golden light fills the sky, and a distant village spire and rooftops appear on the horizon.

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