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   {
    "text": "But only three in all God’s universe",
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   {
    "text": "Have heard this word thou hast said⁠—Himself, beside",
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   {
    "text": "Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied",
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   {
    "text": "One of us⁠—that was God!⁠—and laid the curse",
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   {
    "text": "So darkly on my eyelids, as to amerce",
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   {
    "text": "My sight from seeing thee⁠—that if I had died,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The deathweights placed there would have signified",
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    "text": "Less absolute exclusion. “Nay” is worse",
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   {
    "text": "From God than from all others, O my friend!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Men could not part us with their worldly jars,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,",
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    "text": "We should but vow the faster for the stars.",
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