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    "text": "Passer-by, sin beyond any sin",
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    "text": "Is the sin of blindness of souls to other souls.",
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    "text": "And joy beyond any joy is the joy",
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    "text": "Of having the good in you seen, and seeing the good",
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    "text": "At the miraculous moment!",
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    "text": "Here I confess to a lofty scorn,",
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    "text": "And an acrid skepticism.",
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    "text": "But do you remember the liquid that Penniwit",
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    "text": "Poured on tintypes, making them blue",
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   {
    "text": "With a mist like hickory smoke?",
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   {
    "text": "Then how the picture began to clear",
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    "text": "Till the face came forth like life?",
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   {
    "text": "So you appeared to me, neglected ones,",
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    "text": "And enemies too, as I went along",
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    "text": "With my face growing clearer to you as yours",
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    "text": "Grew clearer to me.",
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    "text": "We were ready then to walk together",
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    "text": "And sing in chorus and chant the dawn",
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    "text": "Of life that is wholly life.",
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