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   {
    "text": "Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace",
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   {
    "text": "To look through and behind this mask of me,",
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   {
    "text": "(Against which, years have beat thus blanchingly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With their rains), and behold my soul’s true face,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The dim and weary witness of life’s race⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Because thou hast the faith and love to see,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Through that same soul’s distracting lethargy,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The patient angel waiting for a place",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the new Heavens⁠—because nor sin nor woe,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor God’s infliction, nor death’s neighbourhood,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor all which others viewing, turn to go,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor all which makes me tired of all, self-viewed⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nothing repels thee⁠—Dearest, teach me so",
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   {
    "text": "To pour out gratitude, as thou dost, good!",
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