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 "title": "Prayer",
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 "subtitle": "In Time of Plague",
 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, holy Pestilence, gird thee with might,",
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   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, come thou upon them, come thou at night,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, put on thy mantle, put on thy crown,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, come on the cities, come and strike down,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, let them all perish, touch’d with thy breath,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, let them grow rotten, moulding in death,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, put on thy garments, a crown on thy head,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, let all the nations fall at thy tread,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, let them all perish, let them be dead.",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, then shall the cities sink with thy might,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, they shall lie desert, plague-struck at night,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, then shall the rulers, crown’d with a crown,",
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   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, feeling them stricken, reel and fall down,",
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   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, then shall the nations faint with thy breath,",
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   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, then shall the valleys be cover’d with death,",
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   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, peasant with ruler, body with head,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, all shall be stricken under thy tread,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Holy Pestilence, all shall be rotten, all shall be dead.",
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