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 "title": "Hymn",
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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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  "year": 1845,
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   {
    "text": "At morn⁠—at noon⁠—at twilight dim⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Maria! thou hast heard my hymn!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In joy and woe⁠—in good and ill⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mother of God, be with me still!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When the Hours flew brightly by,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And not a cloud obscured the sky,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My soul, lest it should truant be,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy grace did guide to thine and thee;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now, when storms of Fate o’ercast",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Darkly my Present and my Past,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let my Future radiant shine",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With sweet hopes of thee and thine!",
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