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    "text": "Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed",
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    "text": "And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright,",
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    "text": "Let temple burn, or flax; an equal light",
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    "text": "Leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or weed:",
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    "text": "And love is fire. And when I say at need",
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    "text": "I love thee⁠—mark!⁠—I love thee⁠—in thy sight",
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    "text": "I stand transfigured, glorified aright,",
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    "text": "With conscience of the new rays that proceed",
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    "text": "Out of my face toward thine. There’s nothing low",
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    "text": "In love, when love the lowest: meanest creatures",
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    "text": "Who love God, God accepts while loving so.",
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    "text": "And what I feel, across the inferior features",
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    "text": "Of what I am, doth flash itself, and show",
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    "text": "How that great work of Love enhances Nature’s.",
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