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    "text": "Wallace, created on a noble plan",
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   {
    "text": "To show us that a Judge can be a Man;",
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   {
    "text": "Through moral mire exhaling mortal stench",
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   {
    "text": "God-guided sweet and foot-clean to the Bench;",
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    "text": "In salutation here and sign I lift",
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    "text": "A hand as free as yours from lawless thrift,",
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    "text": "A heart⁠—ah, would I truly could proclaim",
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   {
    "text": "My bosom lighted with so pure a flame!",
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    "text": "Alas, not love of justice moves my pen",
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    "text": "To praise, or to condemn, my fellow men.",
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    "text": "Good will and ill its busy point incite:",
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    "text": "I do but gratify them when I write.",
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   {
    "text": "In palliation, though, I’d humbly state,",
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    "text": "I love the righteous and the wicked hate.",
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    "text": "So, sir, although we differ we agree,",
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    "text": "Our work alike from persecution free,",
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    "text": "And Heaven, approving you, consents to me.",
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    "text": "Take, therefore, from this not all useless hand",
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    "text": "The crown of honor⁠—not in all the land",
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    "text": "One honest man dissenting from the choice,",
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    "text": "Nor in approval one Fred Crocker’s voice!",
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