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    "text": "I am the Lord your God: even he that made",
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   {
    "text": "Material things, and all these signs arrayed",
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   {
    "text": "Above you and have set beneath the race",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of mankind, who forget their Father’s face",
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   {
    "text": "And even while they drink my light of day",
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   {
    "text": "Dream of some other gods and disobey",
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   {
    "text": "My warnings, and despise my holy laws,",
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   {
    "text": "Even tho’ their sin shall slay them. For which cause,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dreams dreamed in vain, a never-filled desire",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in close flesh a spiritual fire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A thirst for good their kind shall not attain,",
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   {
    "text": "A backward cleaving to the beast again.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A loathing for the life that I have given,",
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   {
    "text": "A haunted, twisted soul for ever riven",
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   {
    "text": "Between their will and mine⁠—such lot I give",
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   {
    "text": "While still in my despite the vermin live.",
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   {
    "text": "They hate my world! Then let that other God",
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   {
    "text": "Come from the outer spaces glory-shod,",
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   {
    "text": "And from this castle I have built on Night",
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   {
    "text": "Steal forth my own thought’s children into light,",
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   {
    "text": "If such an one there be. But far away",
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   {
    "text": "He walks the airy fields of endless day,",
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   {
    "text": "And my rebellious sons have called Him long",
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   {
    "text": "And vainly called. My order still is strong",
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   {
    "text": "And like to me nor second none I know.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wither the mammoth went this creature too shall go.",
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