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    "text": "Have the bright and glowing visions",
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   {
    "text": "Faded from thy longing sight,",
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    "text": "Like the gorgeous tints of ev’n",
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    "text": "Mingling with the shades of night?",
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    "text": "Didst thou hope to see thy country",
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    "text": "Wearing Justice as a crown,",
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   {
    "text": "Standing foremost ’mid the nations",
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    "text": "Worthy of the world’s renown?",
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    "text": "Didst thou think the grand fruition",
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    "text": "Reached the fullness of its time,",
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   {
    "text": "When the crater of God’s judgment",
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    "text": "Overflowed the nation’s crime?",
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    "text": "That thy people, purged by fire,",
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    "text": "Would have trod another path,",
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   {
    "text": "Careful, lest their feet should stumble",
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    "text": "On the cinders of God’s wrath?",
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    "text": "And again the injured negro",
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   {
    "text": "Grind the dreadful mills of fate,",
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   {
    "text": "Pressing out the fearful vintage",
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    "text": "Of the nation’s scorn and hate?",
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    "text": "Sadder than the crimson shadows",
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   {
    "text": "Hung for years around our skies,",
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    "text": "Are the hopes so fondly cherished",
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    "text": "Fading now before thine eyes.",
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    "text": "Not in vain has been thy hoping,",
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    "text": "Though thy fair ideals fade,",
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    "text": "If, like one of God’s tall aloes,",
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    "text": "Thou art rip’ning in the shade.",
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    "text": "There is light beyond the darkness,",
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    "text": "Joy beyond the present pain;",
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    "text": "There is hope in God’s great justice,",
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    "text": "And the negro’s rising brain.",
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    "text": "Though before the timid counsels",
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    "text": "Truth and Right may seem to fail,",
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    "text": "God hath bathed his sword in judgment,",
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    "text": "And his arm shall yet prevail.",
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