confused about html escaping

My page is wrapped in a module that does has html escaping:

<#escape x as x?html>
..

<#nested>
..

</#escape>

Then my nested section is outputing the values of a collection like this:

<pre>
                    <#list someCollection as doc>
                        <div class="line">${doc.line}</div>
                    </#list>
</pre>

Now the value of line is like "< some text here>"

But on my page, it is showing up as blank.  Looking at the actual rendered
html it shows blank also.  When I set a breakpoint in my code, I can see
that the collection has the value "< some text here >" for the item in the
collection 'someCollection'.

I tried removing the <#escape x as x?html> also and nothing changed, still
don't see the row.

I just want to safely display this information like this in the html:  &lt;
some text here &gt;

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