JQUERY, TEXT, appending an LI to a list with a SPAN wrapped?

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Published on 2010-03-08T04:29:56Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 4:36 UTC
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here is my current line of code:

$("<li>").text($(this).text()).appendTo("#theList");

Which results in

<ul id="theList">
<li>blah</li>
<li>blah</li>
</ul>

How can I update that code above to result in:

<ul id="theList">
<li><span>blah</span></li>
<li><span>blah</span></li>
</ul>

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