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    "text": "God! ask me not to record your wonders,",
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   {
    "text": "I admit the stars and the suns",
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    "text": "And the countless worlds.",
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    "text": "But I have measured their distances",
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    "text": "And weighed them and discovered their substances.",
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    "text": "I have devised wings for the air,",
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    "text": "And horses of iron for the earth.",
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   {
    "text": "I have lengthened the vision you gave me a million times,",
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   {
    "text": "And the hearing you gave me a million times,",
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   {
    "text": "I have leaped over space with speech,",
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    "text": "And taken fire for light out of the air.",
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    "text": "I have built great cities and bored through the hills,",
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    "text": "And bridged majestic waters.",
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    "text": "I have written the Iliad and Hamlet;",
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    "text": "And I have explored your mysteries,",
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    "text": "And searched for you without ceasing,",
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    "text": "And found you again after losing you",
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    "text": "In hours of weariness⁠—",
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    "text": "And I ask you:",
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    "text": "How would you like to create a sun",
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    "text": "And the next day have the worms",
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    "text": "Slipping in and out between your fingers?",
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