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    "text": "In that high country whither thou art gone,",
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   {
    "text": "Right noble friend, thou walkest with thy peers,",
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   {
    "text": "The gathered great of many a hundred years!",
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    "text": "Few are left like thee⁠—few, I say, not none,",
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    "text": "Else were thy England soon a Babylon,",
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    "text": "A land of outcry, mockery, and tears!",
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    "text": "Higher than law, a refuge from its fears,",
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    "text": "Wast thou, in whom embodied Justice shone.",
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    "text": "The smile that gracious broke on thy grand face",
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    "text": "Was like the sunrise of a morn serene",
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    "text": "Among the mountains, making sweet their awe.",
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    "text": "Thou both the gentle and the strong didst draw;",
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    "text": "Thee childhood loved, and on thy breast would lean,",
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    "text": "As, whence thou cam’st, it knew the lofty place.",
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