Incorrect results when the original text contains aribitrary whitespace throughout

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Since Sep 25, 2019.

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original_text = """in Just-\nspring          when the world is mud-\nluscious the little\nlame balloonman\n\nwhistles          far          and wee\n\nand eddieandbill come\n   
running from marbles and\npiracies and it's\nspring\n\nwhen the world is puddle-wonderful\n\nthe queer\nold balloonman whistles\nfar          and             wee\nand bettyandisbel\
 come dancing\n\nfrom hop-scotch and jump-rope and\n\nit's\nspring\nand\n\n         the\n\n                  goat-footed\n\nballoonMan          whistles\nfar\nand\nwee"""

match.match(original_text, ["when", "the", "world", "is", "mud-luscious", 
"the", "little", "lame", "balloonman", "whistles", "far", "and", "wee"])

This produces incorrect results, failing to match all the way to the end of "wee" (let alone "whistles"):

[(25, 92, 'when the world is mud-\nluscious the little\nlame balloonman\n\nwhistle')]
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