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    "text": "High o’er his world as thus Columbus gazed,",
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    "text": "And Hesper still the changing scene emblazed,",
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    "text": "Round all the realms increasing lustre flew",
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    "text": "And raised new wonders to the Patriarch’s view.",
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    "text": "He saw at once, as far as eye could rove,",
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    "text": "Like scattering herds, the swarthy people move",
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    "text": "In tribes innumerable; all the waste,",
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    "text": "Wide as their walks, a varying shadow cast.",
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    "text": "As airy shapes, beneath the moon’s pale eye,",
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   {
    "text": "People the clouds that sail the midnight sky,",
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   {
    "text": "Dance through the grove and flit along the glade",
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   {
    "text": "And cast their grisly phantoms on the shade,",
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    "text": "So move the hordes in thickets half conceal’d",
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    "text": "Or vagrant stalking through the fenceless field.",
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    "text": "Here tribes untamed, who scorn to fix their home,",
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    "text": "O’er shadowy streams and trackless deserts roam;",
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    "text": "While others there in settled hamlets rest,",
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    "text": "And corn-clad vales a happier state attest.",
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   {
    "text": "Crowds of war painted chiefs, athirst for gore,",
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    "text": "Beat their own breasts and tone their hideous roar;",
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    "text": "From hill to hill the startling war song flies",
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    "text": "And tribes on tribes in dread disorder rise,",
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    "text": "Track the mute foe and scour the howling wood",
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    "text": "Loud as a storm, ungovern’d as a flood;",
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    "text": "Or deep in groves the silent ambush lay,",
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    "text": "Lead the false flight, decoy and seize their prey,",
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   {
    "text": "Their captives torture, butcher for their food,",
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    "text": "Suck the warm veins and grime their cheeks with blood.",
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   {
    "text": "In doubt he stood and question’d thus the seer,",
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    "text": "What class of nature’s sons behold we here?",
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    "text": "Their human frames with brutal souls combine,",
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   {
    "text": "No power can tame them and no arts refine;",
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   {
    "text": "Can these be fashion’d on the social plan,",
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    "text": "Or boast a lineage with the race of man?",
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   {
    "text": "When found in that my first discover’d isle,",
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    "text": "They used no force, and seem’d to know no guile.",
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    "text": "A timorous herd like harmless roes they ran",
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    "text": "And call’d us gods, from whom their tribes began.",
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    "text": "But when, their fears allay’d, in us they trace",
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    "text": "Men of this earth, a social mortal race,",
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    "text": "When Spanish blood their eyes with joy beheld,",
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   {
    "text": "A frantic rage their changing bosoms swell’d;",
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   {
    "text": "They roused their bands from numerous hills afar",
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    "text": "To feast their souls on ruin, waste and war;",
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    "text": "Nor plighted vows nor sure defeat control",
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    "text": "The same indignant savageness of soul.",
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    "text": "Tell then, my seer, from what dire sons of earth",
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    "text": "The brutal people drew their ancient birth;",
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    "text": "If these forgotten shores and useless tides",
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    "text": "Have form’d them different from the world besides,",
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    "text": "Born to subjection, when in happier time",
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   {
    "text": "A nobler race should reach their fruitful clime;",
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    "text": "Or if a common source all nations claim,",
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    "text": "Their lineage, form and faculties the same,",
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    "text": "What sovereign secret cause, yet undisplay’d,",
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    "text": "This wondrous change in nature’s work has made;",
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    "text": "Why various powers of soul and tints of face",
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    "text": "In different lands diversify the race.",
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    "text": "To whom the Guide: Unnumber’d causes lie",
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    "text": "In earth and sea, in climate, soil and sky,",
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    "text": "That fire the soul or damp the genial flame",
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    "text": "And work their wonders on the human frame.",
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   {
    "text": "See beauty, form and color change with place;",
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   {
    "text": "Here charms of health the lively visage grace,",
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   {
    "text": "There pale diseases float in every wind,",
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    "text": "Deform the figure, and degrade the mind.",
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    "text": "From earth’s own elements thy race at first",
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    "text": "Rose into life, the children of the dust;",
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   {
    "text": "These kindred elements, by various use,",
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    "text": "Nourish the growth and every change produce,",
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    "text": "In each ascending stage the man sustain,",
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    "text": "His breath, his food, his physic and his bane.",
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   {
    "text": "In due proportions where these atoms lie,",
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   {
    "text": "A certain form their equal aids supply;",
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   {
    "text": "And while unchanged the efficient causes reign,",
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   {
    "text": "Age following age the certain form maintain.",
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   {
    "text": "But where crude atoms disproportion’d rise",
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   {
    "text": "And cast their sickening vapors round the skies,",
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    "text": "Unlike that harmony of human frame,",
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    "text": "That moulded first and reproduce the same,",
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    "text": "The tribes ill form’d, attempering to the clime,",
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   {
    "text": "Still vary downward with the years of time;",
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    "text": "More perfect some and some less perfect yield",
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    "text": "Their reproductions in this wondrous field;",
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    "text": "Till fixt at last their characters abide",
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    "text": "And local likeness feeds their local pride.",
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    "text": "The soul too, varying with the change of clime,",
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    "text": "Feeble or fierce, or groveling or sublime,",
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    "text": "Forms with the body to a kindred plan",
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    "text": "And lives the same, a nation or a man.",
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    "text": "Yet think not clime alone the tint controls,",
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    "text": "On every shore, by altitude of poles;",
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    "text": "A different cast the glowing zone demands,",
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    "text": "In Paria’s groves, from Tombut’s burning sands.",
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    "text": "Unheeded agents, for the sense too fine,",
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   {
    "text": "With every pulse, with every thought combine,",
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    "text": "Through air and ocean with their changes run,",
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    "text": "Breathe from the ground or circle with the sun.",
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    "text": "Where these long continents their shores outspread,",
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   {
    "text": "See the same form all different tribes pervade.",
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   {
    "text": "Through all alike the fertile forests bloom,",
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   {
    "text": "And all, uncultured, shed a solemn gloom;",
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   {
    "text": "Through all, great nature’s boldest features rise,",
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    "text": "Sink into vales or tower amid the skies;",
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    "text": "Streams darkly winding stretch a broader sway,",
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   {
    "text": "The groves and mountains bolder walks display;",
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    "text": "A dread sublimity informs the whole,",
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    "text": "And rears a dread sublimity of soul.",
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    "text": "Yet time and art shall other changes find,",
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    "text": "And open still and vary still the mind.",
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    "text": "The countless clans that tread these dank abodes,",
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   {
    "text": "Who glean spontaneous fruits and range the woods,",
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    "text": "Fixt here for ages in their swarthy face",
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    "text": "Display the wild complexion of the place.",
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    "text": "Yet when the hordes to happy nations rise",
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    "text": "And earth by culture warms the genial skies,",
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    "text": "A fairer tint and more majestic grace",
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    "text": "Shall flush their features and exalt the race;",
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    "text": "While milder arts, with social joys refined,",
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    "text": "Inspire new beauties in the growing mind.",
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    "text": "Thy followers too, old Europe’s noblest pride,",
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    "text": "When future gales shall wing them o’er the tide,",
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    "text": "A ruddier hue and deeper shade shall gain",
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    "text": "And stalk in statelier figures, on the plain.",
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    "text": "While nature’s grandeur lifts the eye abroad",
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    "text": "O’er these last labors of the forming God,",
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    "text": "Wing’d on a wider glance the venturous soul",
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    "text": "Bids greater powers and bolder thoughts unroll;",
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    "text": "The sage, the chief, the patriot unconfined",
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    "text": "Shield the weak world and meliorate mankind.",
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    "text": "But think not thou, in all the range of man,",
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    "text": "That different pairs each different cast began;",
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    "text": "Or tribes distinct, by signal marks confest,",
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    "text": "Were born to serve or subjugate the rest.",
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    "text": "The Hero heard and thus resumed the strain:",
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    "text": "Who led these wanderers o’er the dreary main?",
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    "text": "Could their weak sires, unskill’d in human lore,",
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    "text": "Build the bold bark to seek an unknown shore?",
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    "text": "A shore so distant from the world beside,",
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    "text": "So dark the tempests and so wild the tide,",
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    "text": "That Greece and Tyre and all who tempt the sea,",
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    "text": "Have shunn’d the task and left the fame to me.",
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    "text": "When first thy roving race, the Power replied,",
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   {
    "text": "Learn’d by the stars the devious sail to guide,",
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    "text": "From stormy Hellespont explored the way",
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    "text": "And sought the limits of the Midland sea,",
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    "text": "Before Alcides form’d his impious plan",
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    "text": "To check the sail and bound the steps of man,",
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    "text": "This hand had led them to this rich abode",
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    "text": "And braved the wrath of that strong demigod.",
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    "text": "Driven from the Calpian strait, a hapless train",
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    "text": "Roll’d on the waves that sweep the western main;",
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    "text": "Storms from the orient blacken’d heaven with shade,",
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    "text": "Nor sun nor stars could yield their wonted aid.",
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    "text": "For many a darksome day o’erwhelm’d and tost,",
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    "text": "Their sails, their oars in swallowing surges lost,",
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    "text": "At length, the clouds withdrawn, they sad descry",
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    "text": "Their course directing from their native sky.",
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    "text": "No hope remains; far onward o’er the zone,",
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    "text": "The trade wind bears them with the circling sun;",
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    "text": "Till wreckt and stranded here, the sylvan coast",
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    "text": "Receives to lonely seats the suffering host.",
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    "text": "The fruitful vales invite their steps to roam",
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   {
    "text": "Renounce their sorrows and forget their home;",
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    "text": "Revolving years their ceaseless wanderings led,",
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    "text": "And from their sons descending nations spread.",
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    "text": "These in the torrid tracts began their sway,",
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    "text": "Whose cultured fields their growing arts display.",
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    "text": "The northern tribes a later stock may boast,",
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    "text": "A race descended from the Asian coast.",
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    "text": "High in the arctic, where Anadir glides,",
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    "text": "A narrow strait the impinging worlds divides;",
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    "text": "There Tartar fugitives from famine sail,",
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    "text": "And migrant tribes these fruitful shorelands hail.",
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    "text": "He spoke; when Behren’s pass before them lay,",
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    "text": "And moving nations on the margin stray",
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    "text": "Thick swarming, venturous; sail and oar they ply",
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    "text": "Climb on the surge and o’er the billows fly.",
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    "text": "As when autumnal storms awake their force",
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    "text": "The storks foreboding tempt their southern course,",
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    "text": "From all the fields collecting throngs arise,",
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    "text": "Mount on the wing and crowd along the skies;",
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    "text": "Thus, to his eye, from bleak Tartaria’s shore,",
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    "text": "Through isles and seas the gathering people pour,",
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    "text": "Change their cold regions for a happier strand,",
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    "text": "Leap from the wave and tread the welcome land,",
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    "text": "In growing tribes extend their southern sway",
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    "text": "And wander wide beneath a warmer day.",
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    "text": "But why, the Chief replied, if ages past",
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    "text": "Led the bold vagrants to so mild a waste,",
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    "text": "If human souls for social compact given",
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    "text": "Imprest their nature with the stamp of heaven,",
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    "text": "Why the wild woods forever must they rove,",
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    "text": "Nor arts nor social joys their passions move?",
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    "text": "Long is the lapse of ages, since thy hand",
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    "text": "Conducted here thy first adventurous band.",
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    "text": "On other shores, in every eastern clime,",
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    "text": "Since that unletter’d, distant tract of time,",
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   {
    "text": "What arts have sprung, imperial powers to grace!",
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   {
    "text": "What sceptres sway’d the many-master’d race!",
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   {
    "text": "Guilt, grandeur, glory from their seats been hurl’d",
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    "text": "And dire divulsions shook the changing world!",
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    "text": "Ere Rome’s first Eagle clave the frighted air,",
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   {
    "text": "Ere Sparta form’d her deathlike sons of war,",
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   {
    "text": "Ere Tyre and Ilion saw their towers arise,",
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   {
    "text": "Or Memphian pyramids usurpt the skies,",
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   {
    "text": "These tribes have forester’d the fruitful zone,",
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    "text": "Their seats unsettled and their name unknown.",
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    "text": "Hesper to this replied: A scanty train",
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   {
    "text": "In that far age approacht the wide domain;",
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   {
    "text": "The wide domain with game and fruitage crown’d",
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   {
    "text": "Supplied their food uncultured from the ground.",
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   {
    "text": "By nature form’d to rove, the human kind,",
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   {
    "text": "Of freedom fond, will ramble unconfined,",
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   {
    "text": "Till all the region fills, and rival right",
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    "text": "Restrains their steps and bids their force unite;",
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    "text": "When common safety builds a common cause,",
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    "text": "Conforms their interest and inspires their laws,",
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   {
    "text": "By mutual checks their different manners blend,",
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   {
    "text": "Their fields bloom joyous and their walls ascend.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here to the vagrant tribes no bounds arose,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They form’d no union, as they fear’d no foes;",
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   {
    "text": "Wandering and wild, from sire to son they stray",
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   {
    "text": "A thousand ages, scorning every sway.",
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   {
    "text": "And what a world their seatless tribes embraced!",
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    "text": "A total hemisphere’s extended waste;",
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    "text": "See the lands lengthen, see the rivers roll",
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    "text": "To each blue main, each far dissunder’d pole!",
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    "text": "But lo, at last the destined course is run,",
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    "text": "The realms are peopled and their arts begun.",
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    "text": "Where yon mid region elevated lies,",
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    "text": "A few famed cities glitter to the skies;",
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    "text": "There move in eastern pomp the toils of state,",
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    "text": "The Hero turn’d to greet the novel sight,",
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    "text": "When three far splendors, yet confusedly bright,",
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    "text": "Rose like a constellation; till more near,",
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    "text": "Distinctly markt their different sites appear;",
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    "text": "Diverging still, beneath their roofs of gold,",
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    "text": "Three cities gay their mural towers unfold.",
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    "text": "So, led by visions of his guiding God,",
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    "text": "Saw the new heaven its flamy cope unbend",
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    "text": "And walls and gates and spiry domes descend;",
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    "text": "His well known sacred city grows, and gains",
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    "text": "Her new built towers, her renovated fanes;",
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    "text": "With golden skies and suns and rainbows crown’d",
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    "text": "A mimic morn her sparkling vanes disclose,",
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    "text": "Her opening streets concentred hues display,",
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    "text": "Give back the sun, and shed internal day;",
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    "text": "The circling wall with guardian turrets frown’d",
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    "text": "And lookt defiance to the realms around;",
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    "text": "A glimmering lake without the wall retires,",
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    "text": "A giant structure claims a loftier sky;",
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    "text": "O’er the tall gates sublimer arches bend,",
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    "text": "Courts larger lengthen, bolder walks ascend,",
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    "text": "Starr’d with superior gems the porches shine",
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    "text": "And speak the royal residence within.",
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    "text": "There, deckt in state robes on his golden throne",
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    "text": "Mid suppliant kings, dread Montezuma shone;",
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    "text": "Mild in his eye a temper’d grandeur sate,",
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    "text": "High seem’d his soul, with conscious power elate;",
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    "text": "Round the rich throne, in various lustre dight,",
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    "text": "Gems undistinguisht cast a changing light;",
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    "text": "Sapphire and emerald soften down the scene,",
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    "text": "Cold azure mingling with the vernal green,",
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    "text": "Pearl, amber, ruby warmer flames unfold",
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    "text": "And diamonds brighten from the burning gold;",
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    "text": "Through all the dome the living blazes blend",
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    "text": "And shoot their rainbows where the arches bend.",
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    "text": "On every ceiling, painted light and gay,",
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    "text": "Symbolic forms their graphic art display,",
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    "text": "Recording, confident of endless fame,",
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    "text": "Each feat of arms, each patriarchal name,",
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    "text": "Like Memphian hieroglyphs, to stretch the span",
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    "text": "Of memory frail in momentary man.",
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    "text": "Pour’d through the gates a hundred nations greet,",
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    "text": "Throng the rich mart and line each ample street,",
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    "text": "Ply different labors, walls and structures rear",
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    "text": "Or till the fields or train the ranks of war.",
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    "text": "Through spreading states the skirts of empire bend,",
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    "text": "New temples rise and other plains extend;",
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    "text": "Thrice ten wide provinces, in culture gay,",
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    "text": "Bless the same king and daily firm the sway.",
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    "text": "A smile benignant kindling in his eyes,",
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    "text": "O happy realm! the glad Columbus cries;",
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    "text": "Far in the midland, safe from every foe,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy arts shall flourish as thy virtues grow,",
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   {
    "text": "To endless years thy rising fame extend",
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    "text": "And sires of nations from thy sons descend.",
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    "text": "May no gold-thirsty race thy temples tread,",
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    "text": "Insult thy rites nor heap thy plains with dead;",
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    "text": "No Bovadilla seize the tempting spoil,",
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    "text": "No dark Ovando, no religious Boyle,",
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    "text": "In mimic priesthood grave or robed in state,",
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    "text": "O’erwhelm thy glories in oblivious fate!",
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    "text": "Vain are thy hopes, the sainted Power replied,",
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    "text": "These rich abodes from Spanish hordes to hide,",
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    "text": "Or teach hard guilt and cruelty to spare",
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    "text": "The guardless prize of sacrilegious war.",
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    "text": "Think not the vulture mid the field of slain,",
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    "text": "Where base and brave promiscuous strow the plain,",
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    "text": "Where the young hero in the pride of charms",
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    "text": "Pours brighter crimson o’er his spotless arms,",
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    "text": "Will pass the tempting prey and glut his rage",
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    "text": "On harder flesh and carnage black with age;",
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    "text": "O’er all alike he darts his eager eye,",
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    "text": "Whets the blunt beak and hovers down the sky,",
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    "text": "From countless corses picks the dainty food",
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    "text": "And screams and fattens in the purest blood:",
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    "text": "So the vile hosts, that hither trace thy way,",
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    "text": "On happiest tribes with fiercest fury prey.",
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    "text": "Thine the dread task, O Cortez, here to show",
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   {
    "text": "What unknown crimes can heighten human woe,",
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    "text": "On these fair fields the blood of realms to pour,",
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    "text": "Tread sceptres down and print thy steps in gore,",
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    "text": "With gold and carnage swell thy sateless mind",
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    "text": "And live and die the blackest of mankind.",
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    "text": "He gains the shore. Behold his fortress rise,",
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    "text": "His fleet high flaming suffocates the skies.",
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    "text": "The march begins; the nations in affright",
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    "text": "Quake as he moves and wage the fruitless fight;",
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    "text": "Through the rich provinces he bends his way,",
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    "text": "Kings in his chain and kingdoms for his prey,",
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    "text": "Full on the imperial town infuriate falls",
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    "text": "And pours destruction o’er its batter’d walls.",
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    "text": "In quest of peace great Montezuma stands,",
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    "text": "A sovereign supplicant with lifted hands,",
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    "text": "Brings all his treasure, yields the regal sway,",
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    "text": "Bids vassal millions their new lord obey,",
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    "text": "And plies the victor with incessant prayer,",
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    "text": "Through ravaged realms the harmless race to spare.",
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    "text": "But treasures, tears and sceptres plead in vain,",
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    "text": "Nor threats can move him nor a world restrain;",
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    "text": "While blind religion’s prostituted name",
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    "text": "And monkish fury guide the sacred flame.",
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    "text": "O’er crowded fanes their fires unhallow’d bend,",
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    "text": "Climb the wide roofs, the lofty towers ascend,",
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    "text": "Pour through the lowering skies the smoky flood",
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    "text": "And stain the fields and quench the blaze in blood.",
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    "text": "Columbus heard; and with a heaving sigh",
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    "text": "Dropt the full tear that started in his eye:",
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    "text": "O hapless day! his trembling voice replied,",
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    "text": "That saw my wandering pennon mount the tide.",
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   {
    "text": "Had but the lamp of heaven to that bold sail",
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    "text": "Ne’er markt the passage nor awoke the gale,",
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    "text": "Taught foreign prows these peopled shores to find",
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    "text": "Nor led those tigers forth to fang mankind;",
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    "text": "Then had the tribes beneath these bounteous skies",
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    "text": "Seen their walls widen and their harvests rise,",
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    "text": "Down the long tracts of time their glory shone,",
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   {
    "text": "Broad as the day and lasting as the sun;",
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   {
    "text": "The growing realms, behind thy shield that rest,",
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   {
    "text": "Paternal monarch, still thy power had blest,",
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    "text": "Enjoy’d the pleasures that surround thy throne,",
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    "text": "Survey’d thy virtues and improved their own.",
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    "text": "Forgive me prince, this luckless arm hath led",
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   {
    "text": "The storm unseen that hovers o’er thy head;",
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   {
    "text": "Taught the dark sons of slaughter where to roam,",
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   {
    "text": "To seize thy crown and seal the nation’s doom.",
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   {
    "text": "Arm, sleeping empire, meet the murderous band,",
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   {
    "text": "Drive back the invaders, save the sinking land⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "But vain the call! behold the streaming blood!",
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   {
    "text": "Forgive me nature, and forgive me God.",
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    "text": "While sorrows thus his patriarch pride control,",
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   {
    "text": "Hesper reproving sooths his tender soul:",
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   {
    "text": "Father of this new world, thy tears give o’er,",
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   {
    "text": "Let virtue grieve and heaven be blamed no more.",
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   {
    "text": "Enough for man, with persevering mind,",
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   {
    "text": "To act his part and strive to bless his kind.",
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   {
    "text": "Enough for thee o’er thy dark age to soar",
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   {
    "text": "And raise to light that long-secluded shore.",
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   {
    "text": "For this my guardian care thy youth inspired,",
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    "text": "To virtue rear’d thee and with glory fired,",
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    "text": "Bade in thy plan each distant world unite",
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    "text": "And wing’d thy vessel for the venturous flight.",
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    "text": "Nor think the labors vain; to good they tend;",
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    "text": "Tyrants like these shall ne’er defeat their end;",
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    "text": "Their end that opens far beyond the scope",
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   {
    "text": "Of man’s past efforts and his present hope.",
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   {
    "text": "Long has thy race, to narrow shores confined,",
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    "text": "Trod the same round that fetter’d fast the mind;",
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    "text": "Now, borne on bolder plumes, with happier flight,",
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    "text": "The world’s broad bounds unfolding to the sight,",
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    "text": "The mind shall soar; the coming age expand",
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    "text": "Their arts and lore to every barbarous land;",
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    "text": "And buried gold, drawn copious from the mine,",
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   {
    "text": "Give wings to commerce and the world refine.",
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    "text": "Now to yon southern cities turn thy view",
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   {
    "text": "And mark the rival seats of rich Peru.",
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   {
    "text": "See Quito’s airy plains, exalted high,",
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    "text": "With loftier temples rise along the sky;",
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    "text": "And elder Cusco’s shining roofs unfold,",
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   {
    "text": "Flame on the day and shed their suns of gold.",
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    "text": "Another range, in these pacific climes,",
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    "text": "Spreads a broad theatre for unborn crimes;",
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    "text": "Another Cortez shall their treasures view,",
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    "text": "His rage rekindle and his guilt renew;",
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    "text": "His treason, fraud and every fell design,",
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    "text": "O curst Pizarro, shall revive in thine.",
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    "text": "Here reigns a prince, whose heritage proclaims",
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    "text": "A long bright lineage of imperial names;",
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    "text": "Where the brave roll of Incas love to trace",
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    "text": "The distant father of their realm and race,",
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    "text": "Immortal Capac. He in youthful pride,",
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    "text": "With young Oella his illustrious bride,",
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    "text": "Announced their birth divine; a race begun",
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    "text": "By him sent forth a polisht state to frame,",
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    "text": "Crush the fiend gods that human victims claim,",
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    "text": "With cheerful rites their pure devotions pay",
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    "text": "To the bright orb that gives the changing day.",
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    "text": "On this great plan, as children of the skies,",
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    "text": "They plied their arts and saw their hamlets rise.",
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    "text": "Cusco the seat of states, in peace design’d",
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    "text": "Tamed every tribe and sooth’d the rage of war;",
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    "text": "Near Cusco’s wall, where still their hallow’d isle",
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    "text": "Bathes in its lake and wears its verdant smile,",
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    "text": "Where these prime parents of the sceptred line",
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    "text": "Their advent made and spoke their birth divine,",
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    "text": "Behold their temple stand; its glittering spires",
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    "text": "Light the glad waves and aid their father’s fires.",
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    "text": "Archt in the walls of gold, its portal gleams",
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    "text": "With various gems of intermingling beams;",
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    "text": "And flaming from the front, with borrow’d ray,",
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    "text": "A diamond circlet gives the rival day,",
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    "text": "In whose bright face forever looks abroad",
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    "text": "The labor’d image of the radiant God.",
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    "text": "There dwells the royal priest, whose inner shrine",
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    "text": "Conceals his lore; ’tis there his voice divine",
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    "text": "Columbus heard; and curious to be taught",
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    "text": "What pious fraud such wondrous changes wrought,",
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   {
    "text": "Askt by what mystic charm, in that dark age,",
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    "text": "They quell’d in savage souls the barbarous rage,",
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    "text": "By leagues of peace combined a wide domain",
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    "text": "Long is the tale; but though their labors rest",
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    "text": "By years obscured, in flowery fiction drest,",
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    "text": "My voice, said Hesper, shall revive their name",
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    "text": "And give their merits to immortal fame.",
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    "text": "Led by his father’s wars, in early prime",
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    "text": "Young Capac left his native northern clime;",
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    "text": "And now no more her barbarous rites maintains.",
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    "text": "He saw these vales in richer blooms array’d",
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    "text": "Saw rival clans their local gods adore,",
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    "text": "Their altars staining with their children’s gore,",
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    "text": "Proclaims his bounties and his power supreme;",
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    "text": "Who sails in happier skies, diffusing good,",
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    "text": "Demands no victim and receives no blood.",
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    "text": "In peace return’d with his victorious sire,",
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    "text": "New charms of glory all his soul inspire;",
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    "text": "To conquer nations on a different plan",
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    "text": "And build his greatness on the good of man.",
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    "text": "By nature form’d for hardiest deeds of fame,",
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    "text": "Tall, bold and full-proportion’d rose his frame;",
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    "text": "Strong moved his limbs; a mild majestic grace",
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   {
    "text": "Beam’d from his eyes and open’d in his face;",
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   {
    "text": "O’er the dark world his mind superior shone",
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   {
    "text": "And seem’d the semblance of his parent Sun.",
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    "text": "But though fame’s airy visions lift his eyes,",
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    "text": "And future empires from his labors rise,",
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    "text": "Yet softer fires his daring views control",
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    "text": "And mixt emotions fill his changing soul.",
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    "text": "Shall genius rare that might the world improve",
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    "text": "Bend to the milder voice of careless love",
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   {
    "text": "That bounds his glories and forbids to part",
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    "text": "From bowers that woo’d his fluctuating heart?",
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    "text": "Or shall the toils, imperial heroes claim,",
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   {
    "text": "Fire his brave bosom with a patriot flame,",
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    "text": "Bid sceptres wait him on Peruvia’s shore,",
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    "text": "And loved Oella meet his eyes no more?",
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    "text": "Still unresolved he sought the lonely maid",
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   {
    "text": "Who plied her labors in the silvan shade:",
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   {
    "text": "Her locks loose rolling mantle deep her breast",
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   {
    "text": "And wave luxuriant round her slender waist;",
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   {
    "text": "Gay wreaths of flowers her pensive brows adorn",
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   {
    "text": "And her white raiment mocks the light of morn;",
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   {
    "text": "Her busy hand sustains a bending bough",
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   {
    "text": "Where cotton clusters spread their robes of snow,",
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   {
    "text": "From opening pods unbinds the fleecy store",
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   {
    "text": "And culls her labors for the evening bower.",
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    "text": "For she, the first in all Hesperia, fed",
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   {
    "text": "The turning spindle with the twisting thread;",
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   {
    "text": "The woof, the shuttle follow’d her command,",
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   {
    "text": "Till various garments grew beneath her hand.",
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   {
    "text": "And now, while all her thoughts with Capac rove",
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   {
    "text": "Through former scenes of innocence and love,",
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   {
    "text": "In distant fight his fancied dangers share",
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    "text": "Or wait him glorious from the finisht war;",
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   {
    "text": "Blest with the ardent hope, her sprightly mind",
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   {
    "text": "A vesture white had for the prince design’d;",
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    "text": "And here she seeks the wool to web the fleece,",
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    "text": "The sacred emblem of returning peace.",
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    "text": "Sudden his near approach the maid alarms;",
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   {
    "text": "He flew enraptured to her yielding arms",
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   {
    "text": "And lost, dissolving in a softer flame,",
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    "text": "His distant empire and the fire of fame.",
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   {
    "text": "At length, retiring through the homeward field,",
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    "text": "Their glowing souls to cooler converse yield;",
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   {
    "text": "O’er various scenes of blissful life they ran,",
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    "text": "When thus the warrior to the maid began:",
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    "text": "Long have we markt the inauspicious reign",
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   {
    "text": "That waits our sceptre in this rough domain;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A soil ungrateful and a wayward race,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their game but scanty and confined their space.",
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   {
    "text": "Where late my steps the southern war pursued,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The fertile plains grew boundless as I view’d;",
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   {
    "text": "More numerous nations trod the grassy wild",
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   {
    "text": "And joyous nature more delightful smiled.",
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   {
    "text": "No changing seasons there the flowers deform,",
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   {
    "text": "No dread volcano and no mountain storm;",
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   {
    "text": "Rains ne’er invade nor livid lightnings play",
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   {
    "text": "Nor clouds obscure the radiant king of day.",
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   {
    "text": "But while his orb, in ceaseless glory bright,",
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   {
    "text": "Rolls the rich day and fires his stars by night,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unbounded fullness flows beneath his reign,",
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   {
    "text": "Seas yield their treasures, fruits adorn the plain;",
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   {
    "text": "His melting mountains spread their annual flood,",
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   {
    "text": "Night sheds her dews, the day-breeze fans the god.",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis he inspires me with the vast design",
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   {
    "text": "To form those nations to a sway divine;",
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   {
    "text": "Destroy the rites of every demon Power,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose altars smoke with sacrilegious gore;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To laws and labor teach the tribes to yield",
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   {
    "text": "And richer fruits to grace the cultured field.",
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    "text": "But great, my charmer, is the task of fame",
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   {
    "text": "Their faith to fashion and their lives to tame;",
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   {
    "text": "Full many a spacious wild these eyes must see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Spread dreary bounds between my love and me;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And yon bright godhead circle thrice the year,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each lonely evening number’d with a tear.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Long robes of white my shoulders must embrace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To speak my lineage of ethereal race;",
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   {
    "text": "That simple men may reverence and obey",
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   {
    "text": "The radiant offspring of the Power of day.",
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    "text": "When these my deeds the faith of nations gain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And happy millions bless thy Capac’s reign,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then shall he feign a journey to the Sun,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To bring the partner of his well-earn’d throne;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So shall descending kings the line sustain,",
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   {
    "text": "Till earth’s whole regions join the vast domain.",
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    "text": "Will then my fair, at my returning hour,",
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   {
    "text": "Forsake these wilds and hail a happier bower?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Will she consenting now resume her smiles,",
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   {
    "text": "Send forth her warrior to his glorious toils,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, sweetly patient, wait the flight of days",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That crown our labors with immortal praise?",
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    "text": "Silent the damsel heard; her moistening eye",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Spoke the full soul nor could her voice reply,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till softer accents sooth’d her wounded ear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Composed her tumult and allay’d her fear.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Think not, heroic maid, my steps would part",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While silent sorrows heave that tender heart.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Oella’s peace more dear shall prove to me",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than all the realms that bound the raging sea;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor thou, bright Sun, shalt bribe my soul to rest",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And leave one struggle in her lovely breast.",
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   }
  ],
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    "text": "Yet think in tribes so vast, my gentle fair,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What millions merit our instructive care;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How age to age leads on their joyless gloom,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Habitual slaughter their poor piteous doom.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No social ties their wayward passions prove,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor peace nor pleasure treads the howling grove;",
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   {
    "text": "Mid thousand heroes and a thousand fair",
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   {
    "text": "No fond Oella meets her Capac there.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet, taught by thee domestic joys to prize,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With softer charms the virgin race shall rise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Awake new virtues, every grace improve",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And form their minds for happiness and love.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Ah think, as future years through time descend,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What wide creations on thy voice depend;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And, like the Sun, whose all-delighting ray",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To those mild regions gives his purest day,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Diffuse thy bounties, let me instant fly;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In three short moons the generous task I’ll try,",
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   {
    "text": "Then swift returning, I’ll conduct my fair",
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   {
    "text": "Where realms submissive wait her fostering care.",
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   {
    "text": "And will my prince, my Capac, borne away",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Through those dark wilds in quest of empire stray,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where tigers fierce command the shuddering wood,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And men like tigers thirst for human blood?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Think’st thou no dangerous deed the course attends,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Alone, unaided by thy sire and friends?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Even chains and death may meet my hero there,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor his last groan could reach Oella’s ear.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "But no! nor death nor chains shall Capac prove",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unknown to her, while she has power to rove.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Close by thy side, where’er thy wanderings stray,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My equal steps shall measure all the way;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With borrow’d soul each chance of fate I’ll dare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy toils to lessen and thy dangers share.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Quick shall my ready hand two garments weave,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose sunny whiteness shall the tribes deceive;",
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   {
    "text": "Thus clad, their homage shall secure our sway",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And hail us children of the god of day.",
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    "text": "The lovely counsel pleased. The smiling chief",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Approved her courage and dispell’d her grief;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then to their homely bower in haste they move,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Begin their labors and prepare to rove.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Soon grow the robes beneath her forming care",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the fond parents wed the wondrous pair;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But whelm’d in grief beheld the following dawn,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their joys all vanisht and their children gone.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nine days they marcht; the tenth effulgent morn",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Saw their white forms that sacred isle adorn.",
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   {
    "text": "The work begins; they preach to every band",
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   {
    "text": "The well-form’d fiction and their faith demand;",
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   {
    "text": "With various miracles their powers display,",
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   {
    "text": "To prove their lineage and confirm their sway.",
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   {
    "text": "They train to different arts the hand of toil,",
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   {
    "text": "To whirl the spindle and to spade the soil,",
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   {
    "text": "The Sun’s bright march with pious finger trace",
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   {
    "text": "And his pale sister with her changing face;",
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   {
    "text": "Show how their bounties clothe the labor’d plain,",
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   {
    "text": "The green maize shooting from its golden grain,",
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   {
    "text": "How the white cotton tree’s expanding lobes",
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    "text": "File into threads, and swell to fleecy robes;",
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   {
    "text": "While the tamed llama aids the wondrous plan",
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    "text": "And lends his garment to the loins of man.",
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    "text": "The astonisht tribes believe, with glad surprise,",
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    "text": "The gods descended from the favoring skies,",
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    "text": "Adore their persons robed in shining white,",
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    "text": "Receive their laws and leave each horrid rite,",
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    "text": "Build with assisting hands the golden throne",
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    "text": "And hail and bless the sceptre of the Sun.",
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