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    "text": "All hail! fair vistas break upon the view,",
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   {
    "text": "The gates swing wide and free with clanging sound,",
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   {
    "text": "Rejoice! a mighty champion is found,",
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   {
    "text": "Son of the morning, prescient and true.",
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    "text": "Upon the threshold of a cycle new",
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    "text": "He stands, and sentinels its virgin ground,",
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    "text": "Seer in his poet-visioning profound,",
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    "text": "Presaging vaster reaches⁠—skies more blue.",
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    "text": "Lifting their misty glances to the day,",
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    "text": "The prismic children pass the erstwhile bars,",
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    "text": "Exultant, swiftly, boundingly they stray,",
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    "text": "Awhile forgetful of deep, hidden scars",
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   {
    "text": "Thus, as a golden legend time shall tell",
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   {
    "text": "Of him who wrought so mightily and well!",
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