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 "poet": "Frances Ellen Watkins Harper",
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    "text": "He had plunged into our sorrows,",
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   {
    "text": "And our sin had pierced his heart,",
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    "text": "As before him loomed death’s shadow,",
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    "text": "But they hailed him as a victor",
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    "text": "As he into Salem came,",
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    "text": "Bat he knew behind that triumph,",
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    "text": "Rising gladly to the sky,",
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    "text": "Soon would come the cries of malice:",
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    "text": "Crucify him! Crucify!",
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    "text": "Onward rode the blessed Saviour,",
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    "text": "Conscious of the coming strife",
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    "text": "Soon to break in storms of hatred",
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    "text": "Ghastly in its fearful anguish",
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    "text": "Rose the cross before his eyes,",
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    "text": "But he saw the joy beyond it,",
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    "text": "Joy to see the cry of scorning",
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    "text": "Through the ages ever bright,",
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    "text": "And the cross of shame transfigured",
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    "text": "To a throne of love and light.",
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    "text": "Joy to know his soul’s deep travail",
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    "text": "Should not he a thing in vain,",
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    "text": "And that joy and peace should blossom",
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    "text": "From his agonizing pain.",
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