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 "title": "Book III",
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    "text": "Now twenty years these children of the skies",
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    "text": "Beheld their gradual growing empire rise.",
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    "text": "They ruled with rigid but with generous care,",
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   {
    "text": "Diffused their arts and sooth’d the rage of war,",
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   {
    "text": "Bade yon tall temple grace their favorite isle,",
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   {
    "text": "The mines unfold, the cultured valleys smile,",
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   {
    "text": "Those broad foundations bend their arches high",
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   {
    "text": "And rear imperial Cusco to the sky;",
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    "text": "Wealth, wisdom, force consolidate the reign",
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    "text": "From the rude Andes to the western main.",
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    "text": "But frequent inroads from the savage bands",
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    "text": "Lead fire and slaughter o’er the labor’d lands;",
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    "text": "They sack the temples, the gay fields deface",
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    "text": "And vow destruction to the Incan race.",
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   {
    "text": "The king, undaunted in defensive war,",
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    "text": "Repels their hordes and speeds their flight afar.",
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    "text": "Stung with defeat, they range a wider wood",
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    "text": "And rouse fresh tribes for future fields of blood.",
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    "text": "Where yon blue ridges hang their cliffs on high",
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   {
    "text": "And suns infulminate the stormful sky,",
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   {
    "text": "The nations, temper’d to the turbid air,",
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   {
    "text": "Breathe deadly strife and sigh for battle’s blare;",
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    "text": "’Tis here they meditate, with one vast blow,",
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    "text": "To crush the race that rules the plains below.",
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   {
    "text": "Capac with caution views the dark design,",
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   {
    "text": "Learns from all points what hostile myriads join,",
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   {
    "text": "And seeks in time by proffer’d leagues to gain",
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    "text": "A bloodless victory, and enlarge his reign.",
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   {
    "text": "His eldest hope, young Rocha, at his call,",
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   {
    "text": "Resigns his charge within the temple wall;",
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    "text": "In whom began, with reverend forms of awe,",
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    "text": "The functions grave of priesthood and of law.",
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    "text": "In early youth, ere yet the ripening sun",
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   {
    "text": "Had three short lustres o’er his childhood run,",
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   {
    "text": "The prince had learnt, beneath his father’s hand,",
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    "text": "The well-framed code that sway’d the sacred land;",
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   {
    "text": "With rites mysterious served the Power divine,",
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   {
    "text": "Prepared the altar and adorn’d the shrine,",
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   {
    "text": "Responsive hail’d with still returning praise",
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   {
    "text": "Each circling season that the god displays,",
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   {
    "text": "Sooth’d with funereal hymns the parting dead,",
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   {
    "text": "At nuptial feasts the joyful chorus led;",
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   {
    "text": "While evening incense and the morning song",
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    "text": "Rose from his hand or trembled on his tongue.",
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    "text": "Thus form’d for empire ere he gain’d the sway,",
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    "text": "To rule with reverence and with power obey,",
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   {
    "text": "Reflect the glories of the parent Sun",
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    "text": "And shine the Capac of his future throne",
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   {
    "text": "Employ’d his docile years; till now from far",
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   {
    "text": "The rumor’d leagues proclaim approaching war;",
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   {
    "text": "Matured for active scenes he quits the shrine,",
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    "text": "To aid in council or in arms to shine.",
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    "text": "Amid the chieftains that the court compose,",
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   {
    "text": "In modest mien the stripling pontiff rose,",
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   {
    "text": "With reverence bow’d, conspicuous o’er the rest,",
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   {
    "text": "Approach’d the throne and thus the sire addrest:",
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    "text": "Great king of nations, heaven-descended sage,",
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    "text": "Thy second heir has reacht the destined age",
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    "text": "To take these priestly robes; to his pure hand",
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    "text": "I yield them pure and wait thy kind command.",
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   {
    "text": "Should foes invade, permit this arm to share",
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   {
    "text": "The toils, the triumphs, every chance of war;",
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   {
    "text": "For this dread conflict all our force demands,",
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   {
    "text": "In one wide field to whelm the brutal bands,",
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   {
    "text": "Pour to the mountain gods their wonted food",
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   {
    "text": "And save thy realms from future leagues of blood.",
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   {
    "text": "Yet oh, may sovereign mercy first ordain",
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   {
    "text": "Propounded compact to the savage train.",
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   {
    "text": "I’ll go with terms of peace to spread thy sway",
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   {
    "text": "And teach the blessings of the god of day.",
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    "text": "The sire return’d: My great desire you know,",
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   {
    "text": "To shield from slaughter and preserve the foe,",
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   {
    "text": "In bands of concord all their tribes to bind",
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   {
    "text": "And live the friend and guardian of mankind.",
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   {
    "text": "Should strife begin, thy youthful arm shall share",
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   {
    "text": "The toils of glory through the walks of war;",
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   {
    "text": "But o’er their hills to seek alone the foes,",
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   {
    "text": "To gain their confidence or brave their blows,",
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   {
    "text": "Bend their proud souls to reason’s voice divine,",
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   {
    "text": "Claims hardier limbs and riper years than thine.",
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   {
    "text": "Yet one of heavenly race the task requires,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose mystic rites control the solar fires;",
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   {
    "text": "So the sooth’d godhead proves to faithless eyes",
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   {
    "text": "His love to man, his empire of the skies.",
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    "text": "Some veteran chief, in those rough labors tried,",
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   {
    "text": "Shall aid thee on and go thy faithful guide;",
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   {
    "text": "O’er dreary heights thy sinking limbs sustain.",
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   {
    "text": "Teach the dark wiles of each insidious train,",
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   {
    "text": "Through all extremes of life thy voice attend,",
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   {
    "text": "In counsel lead thee or in arms defend.",
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    "text": "And three firm youths, thy chosen friends, shall go",
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    "text": "To learn the climes and meditate the foe;",
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    "text": "That wars of future years their skill may find,",
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    "text": "To serve the realm and save the savage kind.",
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    "text": "Rise then, my son, first partner of my fame,",
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   {
    "text": "With early toils to build thy sacred name;",
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   {
    "text": "In high behest, for his own legate known,",
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   {
    "text": "Proclaim the bounties of our sire the sun,",
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   {
    "text": "Tell how his fruits beneath our culture rise,",
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   {
    "text": "His stars, how glorious, gem our cloudless skies;",
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   {
    "text": "And how to us his hand hath kindly given",
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   {
    "text": "His peaceful laws, the purest grace of heaven,",
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   {
    "text": "With power to widen his terrestrial sway",
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   {
    "text": "And give our blessings where he gives the day.",
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   {
    "text": "Yet, should the stubborn nations still prepare",
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    "text": "The shaft of slaughter for the barbarous war,",
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   {
    "text": "Tell them we know to tread the crimson plain,",
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   {
    "text": "And god’s own children never yield to man.",
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    "text": "But ah, my child, with steps of caution go,",
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   {
    "text": "The ways are hideous and enraged the foe;",
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   {
    "text": "Blood stains their altars, all their feasts are blood,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Death their delight, and darkness reigns their god;",
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   {
    "text": "Tigers and vultures, storms and earthquakes share",
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    "text": "Their rites of worship and their spoils of war.",
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   {
    "text": "Shouldst thou, my Rocha, tempt too far their ire,",
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   {
    "text": "Should those dear relics feed a murderous fire,",
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   {
    "text": "Deep sighs would rend thy wretched mother’s breast,",
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   {
    "text": "The pale Sun sink in clouds of darkness drest,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy sire and mournful nations rue the day",
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   {
    "text": "That drew thy steps from these sad walls away.",
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    "text": "Yet go; ’tis virtue calls, and realms unknown,",
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   {
    "text": "Won by these works, may bless thy future throne;",
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   {
    "text": "Millions of unborn souls in time may see",
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   {
    "text": "Their doom reversed and owe their peace to thee;",
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   {
    "text": "Deluded sires, with murdering hands no more",
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   {
    "text": "Feed fancied demons with their children’s gore,",
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   {
    "text": "But, sway’d by happier sceptres, here behold",
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   {
    "text": "The rites of freedom and the shrines of gold.",
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   {
    "text": "Be wise, be mindful of thy realm and throne;",
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   {
    "text": "God speed thy labors and preserve my son!",
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   {
    "text": "Soon the glad prince, in robes of white array’d,",
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    "text": "Call’d his attendants and the sire obey’d;",
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   {
    "text": "A diamond broad, in burning gold imprest,",
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   {
    "text": "Display’d the sun’s bright image on his breast;",
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   {
    "text": "A pearl-dropt girdle bound his waist below,",
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   {
    "text": "And the white lautu graced his lofty brow.",
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   {
    "text": "They journey’d forth, o’ermarching far the mound",
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    "text": "That flankt the kingdom on its Andean bound;",
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   {
    "text": "Ridge after ridge through vagrant hordes they past,",
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   {
    "text": "Where each new tribe seem’d wilder than the last;",
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    "text": "To all they preach and prove the solar sway",
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    "text": "And climb fresh mountains on their tedious way.",
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    "text": "At length, as through disparting clouds they rise,",
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    "text": "And hills above them still obstruct the skies,",
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    "text": "While a dead calm o’er all the region stood",
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   {
    "text": "And not a leaf could fan its parent wood,",
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   {
    "text": "Sudden a strange portentous noise began;",
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    "text": "The birds fled wild, the beasts for shelter ran;",
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    "text": "Slow, sullen, loud, with deep astounding blare,",
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   {
    "text": "Swell the strong tones of subterranean war;",
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   {
    "text": "Behind, before, beneath them groans the ground,",
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   {
    "text": "Earth heaves and labors with the shuddering sound;",
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    "text": "Columns of smoke, that cap the rumbling height,",
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   {
    "text": "Roll reddening far through heaven and choke the light;",
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   {
    "text": "From tottering steeps descend their cliffs of snow,",
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   {
    "text": "The mountains reel, the valleys rend below;",
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   {
    "text": "The headlong streams forget their usual round",
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   {
    "text": "And shrink and vanish in the gaping ground.",
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   {
    "text": "The sun descends; but night recalls in vain",
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   {
    "text": "Her silent shades, to recommence her reign;",
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   {
    "text": "The bursting mount gapes high, a sudden glare",
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   {
    "text": "Coruscates wide, till all the purpling air",
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   {
    "text": "Breaks into flame; it wheels and roars and raves",
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   {
    "text": "And wraps the welkin in its folding waves.",
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   {
    "text": "Light sailing cinders, through its vortex driven,",
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   {
    "text": "Stream high and brighten to the midst of heaven;",
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   {
    "text": "And, following slow, full floods of boiling ore",
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   {
    "text": "Swell, swoop aloft and through the concave roar.",
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    "text": "Torrents of molten rocks, on every side,",
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   {
    "text": "Lead o’er the shelves of ice their fiery tide;",
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    "text": "Hills slide before them, skies around them burn,",
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   {
    "text": "Towns sink beneath and heaving plains upturn;",
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   {
    "text": "O’er many a league the flaming deluge hurl’d,",
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    "text": "Sweeps total nations from the staggering world.",
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    "text": "Meanwhile, at distance through the livid light,",
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    "text": "A busy concourse met their wondering sight;",
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   {
    "text": "The prince drew near; where lo! an altar stood,",
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    "text": "Rude in its form and fill’d with burning wood;",
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   {
    "text": "Wrapt in the flames a child expiring lay",
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   {
    "text": "And the fond father thus was heard to pray:",
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    "text": "Receive, O dreadful power, from feeble age",
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    "text": "This last pure offering to thy sateless rage;",
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   {
    "text": "Thrice has thy vengeance on this hated land",
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   {
    "text": "Claim’d a dear infant from my yielding hand,",
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   {
    "text": "Thrice have those lovely lips the victim prest,",
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    "text": "And all the mother torn that tender breast,",
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   {
    "text": "When the dread duty stifled every sigh",
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   {
    "text": "And not a tear escaped her beauteous eye.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Our fourth and last now meets the fatal doom;",
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   {
    "text": "Groan not, my child, thy god remands thee home;",
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   {
    "text": "Attend once more, thou dark infernal name,",
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   {
    "text": "From yon far streaming pyramid of flame;",
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   {
    "text": "Snatch from his heaving flesh the blasted breath,",
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   {
    "text": "Sacred to thee and all the fiends of death;",
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   {
    "text": "Then in thy hall, with spoils of nations crown’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Confine thy walks beneath the rending ground;",
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   {
    "text": "No more on earth the embowel’d flames to pour,",
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   {
    "text": "And scourge my people and my race no more.",
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    "text": "Thus Rocha heard; and to the trembling crowd",
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   {
    "text": "Turn’d the bright image of his beaming god.",
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   {
    "text": "The afflicted chief with fear and grief opprest",
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   {
    "text": "Beheld the sign and thus the prince addrest:",
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   {
    "text": "From what far land, O royal stranger, say,",
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   {
    "text": "Ascend thy wandering steps this nightly way?",
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   {
    "text": "From plains like ours, by holy demons fired?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have thy brave people in the flames expired?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And hast thou now, to stay the whelming flood,",
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   {
    "text": "No son to offer to the furious god?",
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    "text": "From happier lands I came, the prince returns,",
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   {
    "text": "Where no red flaming flood the concave burns,",
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   {
    "text": "No furious god bestorms our soil and skies",
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   {
    "text": "Nor yield our hands the bloody sacrifice;",
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   {
    "text": "But life and joy the Power delights to give",
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   {
    "text": "And bids his children but rejoice and live.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou seest through heaven the day-dispensing Sun",
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   {
    "text": "In living radiance wheel his golden throne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O’er earth’s gay surface send his genial beams,",
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   {
    "text": "Force from yon cliffs of ice the vernal streams;",
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   {
    "text": "While fruits and flowers adorn the cultured field,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And seas and lakes their copious treasures yield:",
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   {
    "text": "He reigns our only god. In him we trace",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The friend, the father of our happy race.",
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   {
    "text": "Late the lone tribes, on those unlabor’d shores,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ran wild and served imaginary powers;",
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    "text": "Till he in pity taught their feuds to cease,",
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    "text": "Devised their laws and fashion’d all for peace.",
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    "text": "My sacred parents first the reign began,",
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    "text": "Sent from his courts to guide the paths of man,",
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    "text": "To plant his fruits, to manifest his sway",
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    "text": "And give their blessings where he gives the day.",
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    "text": "The sachem proud replied: Thy garb and face",
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    "text": "Proclaim thy lineage of superior race;",
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    "text": "And our progenitors, no less than thine,",
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    "text": "Sprang from a god and own a birth divine.",
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    "text": "From that sky-scorching mount, on floods of flame,",
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    "text": "In elder times my great forefathers came;",
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    "text": "There dwells the sire and from his dark abode",
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    "text": "Oft claims as now the tribute of a god.",
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    "text": "This victim due when willing mortals pay,",
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    "text": "His terrors lessen and his fires decay;",
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    "text": "While purer sleet regales the mountain air,",
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    "text": "And our glad hosts are fired for fiercer war.",
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    "text": "Yet know, dread chief, the pious youth rejoin’d,",
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    "text": "Some one prime Power produced all humankind:",
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    "text": "Some sire supreme, whose ever-ruling soul",
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    "text": "Creates, preserves and regulates the whole.",
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    "text": "That sire supreme must roll his radiant eye",
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    "text": "Round the wide earth and through the boundless sky;",
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    "text": "That all their habitants, their gods and men,",
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    "text": "May rise unveil’d beneath his careful ken.",
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    "text": "Could thy dark fiend, that hides his blind abode",
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    "text": "And cauldrons in his cave that fiery flood,",
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    "text": "Yield the rich fruits that distant nations find,",
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    "text": "Or praise or punish or behold mankind?",
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    "text": "But when my god, resurging from the night,",
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    "text": "Shall gild his chambers with the morning light,",
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    "text": "By mystic rites he’ll vindicate his throne",
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    "text": "And own thy servant for his duteous son.",
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    "text": "Meantime, the chief replied, thy cares releast,",
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    "text": "Rest here the night and share our scanty feast;",
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   {
    "text": "Which, driven in hasty rout, our train supplied,",
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    "text": "When trembling earth foretold the boiling tide.",
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    "text": "They fared, they rested; till with lucid horn",
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    "text": "All-cheering Phosphor led the lively morn;",
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    "text": "The prince arose, an altar rear’d in haste,",
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    "text": "And watcht the splendors of the reddening east.",
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    "text": "As o’er the mountain flamed the sun’s broad eye,",
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    "text": "He call’d the host, his holy rites to try;",
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    "text": "Then took the loaves of maize, the bounties brake,",
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    "text": "Gave to the chief and bade them all partake;",
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    "text": "The hallow’d relics on the pile he placed,",
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    "text": "With tufts of flowers the simple offering graced,",
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    "text": "Held to the sun the image from his breast,",
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    "text": "Whose glowing concave all the god exprest;",
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    "text": "O’er the dried leaves the rays concentred fly,",
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    "text": "And thus his voice ascends the listening sky:",
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    "text": "O thou, whose splendors kindle heaven with fire,",
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    "text": "Great soul of nature, man’s immortal sire,",
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    "text": "If e’er my father found thy sovereign grace,",
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    "text": "Or thy blest will ordain’d the Incan race,",
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    "text": "Give these lorn tribes to learn thy awful name,",
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    "text": "Receive this offering and the pile inflame;",
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    "text": "So shall thy laws o’er wider bounds be known",
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    "text": "And earth’s whole race be happy as thy own.",
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    "text": "Thus pray’d the prince; the focal flames aspire,",
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   {
    "text": "The mute beholders tremble and retire,",
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   {
    "text": "Gaze on the miracle, full credence own",
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   {
    "text": "And vow obedience to the sacred Sun.",
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    "text": "The legates now their further course descried,",
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    "text": "A young cazique attending as a guide,",
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    "text": "O’er craggy cliffs pursued their eastern way,",
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    "text": "Trod loftier champaigns, meeting high the day,",
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    "text": "Saw timorous tribes in these sublime abodes",
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    "text": "Adore the blasts and turn the storms to gods;",
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    "text": "While every cloud that thunders through the skies",
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    "text": "Claims from their hands a human sacrifice.",
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    "text": "Awhile the youth, their better faith to gain,",
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    "text": "Strives with his usual art, but strives in vain;",
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    "text": "In vain he pleads the mildness of the sun;",
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   {
    "text": "A gale refutes him ere his speech be done;",
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    "text": "Continual tempests from their orient blow",
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    "text": "And load the mountains with eternal snow.",
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   {
    "text": "The sun’s own beam, the timid clans declare,",
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   {
    "text": "Drives all their evils on the tortured air;",
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    "text": "He draws the vapors up their eastern sky,",
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    "text": "That sail and centre round his dazzling eye;",
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    "text": "Leads the loud storms along his midday course",
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    "text": "And bids the Andes meet their sweeping force,",
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    "text": "Builds their bleak summits with an icy throne,",
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    "text": "To shine through heaven, a semblance of his own;",
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    "text": "Hence the sharp sleet, these lifted lawns that wait,",
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    "text": "And all the scourges that attend their state.",
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    "text": "Two toilsome days the virtuous Inca strove",
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    "text": "To social life their savage minds to move;",
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    "text": "When the third morning glow’d serenely bright,",
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    "text": "He led their elders to an eastern height;",
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    "text": "The world unlimited beneath them lay",
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    "text": "And not a cloud obscured the rising day.",
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    "text": "Vast Amazonia, starr’d with twinkling streams,",
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   {
    "text": "In azure drest, a heaven inverted seems;",
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    "text": "Dim Paraguay extends the aching sight,",
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    "text": "Xaraya glimmers like the moon of night,",
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    "text": "Land, water, sky in blending borders play",
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    "text": "And smile and brighten to the lamp of day.",
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   {
    "text": "When thus the prince: What majesty divine!",
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   {
    "text": "What robes of gold! what flames about him shine!",
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    "text": "There walks the god; his starry sons on high",
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    "text": "Draw their dim veil and shrink behind the sky;",
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    "text": "Earth with surrounding nature’s born anew,",
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    "text": "And men by millions greet the glorious view.",
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    "text": "Who can behold his all delighting soul",
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    "text": "Give life and joy, and heaven and earth control,",
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    "text": "Bid death and darkness from his presence move,",
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   {
    "text": "Who can behold and not adore and love?",
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    "text": "Those plains, immensely circling, feel his beams,",
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    "text": "He greens the groves, he silvers gay the streams,",
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    "text": "Swells the wild fruitage, gives the beast his food,",
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    "text": "And mute creation hails the genial god.",
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    "text": "But richer boons his righteous laws impart,",
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    "text": "To aid the life and mould the social heart,",
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    "text": "His arts of peace through happy realms to spread,",
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    "text": "And altars grace with sacrificial bread;",
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    "text": "Such our distinguisht lot, who own his sway,",
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    "text": "Mild as his morning stars and liberal as the day.",
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    "text": "His unknown laws, the mountain chief replied,",
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    "text": "May serve perchance your boasted race to guide;",
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    "text": "And yon low plains, that drink his partial ray,",
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    "text": "At his glad shrine their just devotions pay.",
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    "text": "But we nor fear his frown nor trust his smile;",
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    "text": "Vain as our prayers is every anxious toil;",
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    "text": "Our beasts are buried in his whirls of snow,",
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    "text": "Our cabins drifted to his slaves below.",
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   {
    "text": "Even now his placid looks thy hopes beguile,",
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    "text": "He lures thy raptures with a morning smile;",
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    "text": "But soon (for so those saffron robes proclaim)",
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   {
    "text": "His own black tempest shall obstruct his flame,",
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    "text": "Storm, thunder, fire against the mountains driven,",
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    "text": "Rake deep their sulfur’d sides, disgorging here his heaven.",
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    "text": "He spoke; they waited, till the fervid ray",
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    "text": "High from the noontide shot the faithless day;",
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    "text": "When lo, far gathering under eastern skies,",
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    "text": "Solemn and slow, the dark red vapors rise;",
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    "text": "Full clouds, convolving on the turbid air,",
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    "text": "Move like an ocean to the watery war.",
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    "text": "The host, securely raised, no dangers harm,",
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    "text": "They sit unclouded and o’erlook the storm;",
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    "text": "While far beneath, the sky-borne waters ride,",
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    "text": "Veil the dark deep and sheet the mountain’s side;",
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    "text": "The lightning’s glancing fires, in fury curl’d",
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    "text": "Bend their long forky foldings o’er the world;",
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    "text": "Torrents and broken crags and floods of rain",
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    "text": "From steep to steep roll down their force amain",
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    "text": "In dreadful cataracts; the bolts confound",
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    "text": "The tumbling clouds and rock the solid ground.",
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    "text": "The blasts unburden’d take their upward course",
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    "text": "And o’er the mountain top resume their force.",
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    "text": "Swift through the long white ridges from the north,",
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    "text": "The rapid whirlwinds lead their terrors forth;",
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    "text": "High walks the storm, the circling surges rise",
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    "text": "And wild gyrations wheel the hovering skies;",
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    "text": "Vast hills of snow, in sweeping columns driven,",
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   {
    "text": "Deluge the air and choke the void of heaven;",
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    "text": "Floods burst their bounds, the rocks forget their place,",
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    "text": "And the firm Andes tremble to their base.",
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    "text": "Long gazed the host; when thus the stubborn chief,",
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    "text": "With eyes on fire, and fill’d with sullen grief:",
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   {
    "text": "Behold thy careless god, secure on high,",
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    "text": "Laughs at our woes and peaceful walks the sky,",
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    "text": "Drives all his evils on these seats sublime",
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    "text": "And wafts his favors to a happier clime;",
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    "text": "Sire of the dastard race thy words disclose,",
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    "text": "There glads his children, here afflicts his foes.",
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   {
    "text": "Hence! speed thy flight! pursue him where he leads,",
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   {
    "text": "Lest vengeance seize thee for thy father’s deeds,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy immolated limbs assuage the fire",
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    "text": "Of those curst powers, who now a gift require.",
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    "text": "The youth in haste collects his scanty train",
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    "text": "And with the sun flies o’er the western plain;",
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    "text": "The fading orb with plaintive voice he plies,",
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    "text": "To guide his steps and light him down the skies.",
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    "text": "So when the moon and all the host of even",
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    "text": "Hang pale and trembling on the verge of heaven,",
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    "text": "While storms ascending threat their nightly reign,",
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    "text": "They seek their absent sire and sink below the main.",
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    "text": "Now to the south he turns; where one vast plain",
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    "text": "Calls from a hundred hordes the warrior train;",
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    "text": "Of various dress and various form they show’d,",
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    "text": "Whose war song wild the shuddering concave rends;",
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    "text": "Cloak’d in a tiger’s hide their grim chief towers",
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    "text": "And apes the brinded god his tribe adores.",
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    "text": "The tusky jaws grin o’er the sachem’s brow,",
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    "text": "The bald eyes glare, the paws depend below,",
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    "text": "From his bored ears contorted serpents hung,",
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    "text": "And drops of gore seem’d rolling on his tongue.",
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    "text": "The northern glens pour forth the Vulture-race;",
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    "text": "Brown tufts of quills their shaded foreheads grace,",
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    "text": "The claws branch wide, the beak expands for blood,",
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    "text": "And all the armor imitates the god.",
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    "text": "The condor, frowning from a southern plain,",
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    "text": "Borne on a standard, leads a numerous train:",
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    "text": "Clencht in his talons hangs an infant dead,",
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   {
    "text": "His long bill pointing where the sachems tread,",
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   {
    "text": "His wings though lifeless frighten still the wind,",
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   {
    "text": "And his broad tail o’ershades the file behind.",
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    "text": "From other plains and other hills afar,",
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    "text": "The tribes throng dreadful to the promised war;",
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    "text": "Some twine their forelock with a crested snake,",
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    "text": "Some wear the emblems of a stream or lake;",
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    "text": "All from the power they serve assume their mode",
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    "text": "And foam and yell to taste the Incan blood.",
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    "text": "The prince incautious with his men drew near,",
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    "text": "Known for an Inca by his dress and air,",
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    "text": "Till coop’d and caught amid the warrior trains,",
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    "text": "They bow in silence to the victor’s chains.",
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    "text": "When now the gather’d thousands throng the plain",
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    "text": "And echoing skies the rending shouts retain,",
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    "text": "Zamor, the chieftain of the tiger-band,",
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    "text": "By choice appointed to the first command,",
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    "text": "Shrugg’d up his brinded spoils above the rest",
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    "text": "And grimly frowning thus the crowd addrest:",
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    "text": "Warriors, attend! tomorrow leads abroad",
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    "text": "Our sacred vengeance for our brothers’ blood.",
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   {
    "text": "On those scorcht plains forever must they lie,",
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    "text": "Their bones still naked to the burning sky?",
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    "text": "Left in the field for foreign hawks to tear",
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    "text": "Nor our own vultures can the banquet share.",
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    "text": "But soon, ye mountain gods, yon dreary west",
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    "text": "Shall sate your hunger with an ampler feast;",
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   {
    "text": "When the proud Sun, that terror of the plain,",
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   {
    "text": "Shall grieve in heaven for all his children slain,",
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    "text": "As o’er his realm our slaughtering armies roam",
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   {
    "text": "And give to your sad powers a happier home.",
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   {
    "text": "Meanwhile, ye tribes, these men of solar race,",
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   {
    "text": "Food for the flames, your bloody rites shall grace;",
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    "text": "Each to a different god his panting breath",
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   {
    "text": "Resigns in fire; this night demands their death:",
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    "text": "All but the Inca; him reserved in state",
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   {
    "text": "These conquering hands ere long shall immolate",
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    "text": "To all the powers at once that storm the skies,",
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    "text": "A grateful gift, before his mother’s eyes.",
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    "text": "The sachem ceased; the chiefs of every race",
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    "text": "Lead the bold captives to their destined place;",
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    "text": "The sun descends, the parting day expires",
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    "text": "Soon the raised altars kindle round the gloom",
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    "text": "And call the victims to their vengeful doom;",
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    "text": "Led to their pyres, in sullen pomp they tread",
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    "text": "And sing by turns the triumphs of the dead.",
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    "text": "Amid the crowd beside his altar stood",
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    "text": "The youth devoted to the tiger-god;",
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    "text": "A beauteous form he rose, of noble grace,",
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    "text": "The only hope of his illustrious race.",
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    "text": "His aged sire for numerous years had shone",
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    "text": "The first supporter of the Incan throne;",
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    "text": "Wise Capac loved the youth and graced his hand",
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    "text": "With a fair virgin from a neighboring band;",
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    "text": "And him the legate prince, in equal prime,",
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    "text": "Had chose to share his mission round the clime.",
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    "text": "He mounts the pyre, the flames approach his breath,",
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    "text": "And thus he wakes the dauntless song of death:",
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    "text": "Dark vault of heaven, that greet his daily throne,",
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   {
    "text": "Where flee the glories of your absent Sun?",
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    "text": "Ye starry hosts, who kindle from his eye,",
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    "text": "Can you behold him in the western sky?",
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    "text": "Or if unseen beneath his watery bed,",
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    "text": "The wearied God reclines his radiant head,",
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    "text": "When next his morning steps your courts inflame",
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    "text": "And seek on earth for young Azonto’s name,",
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    "text": "Then point these ashes, mark the smoky pile",
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    "text": "And say the hero suffer’d with a smile.",
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    "text": "So shall the Power in vengeance view the place,",
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    "text": "In crimson clothe his terror-beaming face,",
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    "text": "Pour swift destruction on these curst abodes,",
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    "text": "Whelm the grim tribes and all their savage gods.",
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    "text": "But ah, forbear to tell my stooping sire",
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    "text": "His darling hopes have fed a coward fire;",
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    "text": "Why should he know the tortures of the brave?",
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    "text": "Why fruitless sorrows bend him to the grave?",
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    "text": "Nor shalt thou e’er be told, my bridal fair,",
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    "text": "What silent pangs these panting vitals tear,",
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    "text": "But blooming still the patient hours employ",
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    "text": "On the blind hope of future scenes of joy.",
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    "text": "Now haste, ye fiends of death; the sire of day",
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    "text": "In absent slumber gives your malice way;",
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    "text": "While fainter light these livid flames supply,",
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    "text": "And short-lived thousands learn of me to die.",
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    "text": "He ceased not speaking; when the yell of war",
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    "text": "Drowns all their death songs in a hideous jar;",
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    "text": "The cries rebounding from the hillsides pour,",
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    "text": "And wolves and tigers catch the distant roar.",
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    "text": "Now more concordant all their voices join,",
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    "text": "When, to the music of the dismal din,",
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    "text": "Indignant Zamor bids the dance begin.",
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    "text": "Dim through the shadowy fires each changing form",
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    "text": "When o’er the moon’s pale face and starry plain",
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    "text": "The mingling tribes their mazy gambols tread,",
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    "text": "Till the last groan proclaims the victims dead,",
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    "text": "Then part the smoky flesh, enjoy the feast",
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    "text": "And lose their labors in oblivious rest.",
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    "text": "Soon as the western hills announced the morn,",
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    "text": "And falling fires were scarcely seen to burn,",
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    "text": "Grimm’d by the horrors of the dreadful night,",
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    "text": "The hosts woke fiercer for the promised fight;",
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    "text": "And dark and silent through the frowning grove,",
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    "text": "Meantime the solar king collects from far",
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    "text": "Camps on the confines of an eastern plain",
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    "text": "That skirts the steep rough limit of his reign;",
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    "text": "He trains their ranks, their pliant force combines,",
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    "text": "To wheel, change front, in broken files dispart",
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    "text": "High in the front imperial Capac strode",
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    "text": "In fair effulgence like the beaming god;",
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    "text": "A golden girdle bound his snowy vest,",
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    "text": "The lautu’s horned wreath his temples twined,",
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    "text": "Raised high in air his golden sceptre burn’d,",
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    "text": "And hosts surrounding trembled as he turn’d.",
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    "text": "O’er eastern hills he cast his watchful eye,",
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    "text": "Through the broad breaks that lengthen down the sky;",
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    "text": "In whose blue clefts the sloping pathways bend,",
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    "text": "Where annual floods from melting snows descend.",
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    "text": "Now dry and deep, they lead from every height",
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    "text": "The savage files that headlong rush to fight;",
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    "text": "They throng and thicken through the smoky air,",
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    "text": "And every breach pours down the dusky war.",
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    "text": "So when a hundred streams explore their way",
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    "text": "Down the same slopes, convolving to the sea,",
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    "text": "They boil, they bend, they force their floods amain,",
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    "text": "Swell o’er obstructing crags and sweep the plain.",
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    "text": "Capac beholds and waits the coming shock,",
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    "text": "As for the billows waits the storm-beat rock;",
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    "text": "And while for fight his ardent troops prepare,",
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    "text": "Thus through the ranks he breathes the soul of war.",
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    "text": "Ye tribes that flourish in the sun’s mild reign,",
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    "text": "Long have your flocks adorn’d the peaceful plain,",
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    "text": "As o’er the realm his smiles persuasive flow’d",
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    "text": "And conquer’d all without the stain of blood;",
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    "text": "But lo, at last that wild infuriate band",
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    "text": "Beneath the dark immeasurable host,",
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    "text": "Descending, swarming, how the crags are lost!",
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    "text": "Already now their ravening eyes behold",
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    "text": "Your star-bright temples and your gates of gold;",
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    "text": "And to their gods in fancied goblets pour",
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    "text": "The warm libation of your children’s gore.",
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    "text": "Move then to vengeance, meet the sons of blood,",
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    "text": "Led by this arm and lighted by that god;",
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    "text": "The strife is fierce, your fanes and fields the prize;",
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    "text": "Fill’d with his fire, the troops in squared array",
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    "text": "Dread Zamor leads the homicidious train,",
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    "text": "When each grim host, in closer conflict join’d,",
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    "text": "Clench the dire ax and cast the bow behind;",
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    "text": "Through broken ranks sweep wide their slaughtering course,",
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    "text": "Now struggle back, now sidelong sway the force.",
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    "text": "There scattering o’er the field in thin array,",
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    "text": "Man tugs with man, and clubs with axes play;",
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    "text": "And yells and groans and shouts invade the sky;",
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    "text": "Round all the shatter’d groves the ground is strow’d",
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    "text": "With sever’d limbs and corses bathed in blood.",
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    "text": "Long raged the strife; and where, on either side",
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    "text": "Now the Peruvians, in collected might,",
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    "text": "With one wide stroke had wing’d the savage flight;",
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    "text": "But their bright godhead, in his midday race,",
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    "text": "The walking stars, rejoicing at the sight,",
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    "text": "The astonisht Inca marks, with wild surprise,",
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    "text": "Dead chills on earth, no cloud in all the skies,",
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    "text": "His host o’ershaded in the field of blood,",
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    "text": "Gored by his foes, deserted by his god.",
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    "text": "Mute with amaze, they cease the war to wage,",
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    "text": "Gaze on their leaders and forget their rage;",
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    "text": "When pious Capac to the listening crowd",
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    "text": "Raised high his wand and pour’d his voice aloud:",
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    "text": "Peruvians hold! Our god forsakes the plain,",
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    "text": "Nor saves his children nor beholds them slain?",
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    "text": "Fly! speed your course, regain the guardian town;",
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    "text": "Safe in our walls we’ll deprecate his frown,",
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    "text": "And seek returning grace, denied us here;",
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    "text": "Haste, haste my sons! I guard the flying rear.",
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    "text": "The hero spoke; the trembling tribes obey,",
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    "text": "While deeper glooms obscure the source of day.",
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    "text": "Sudden the savage bands collect amain,",
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    "text": "Hang on the rear and sweep them o’er the plain;",
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    "text": "Their shouts, redoubling with the flying war,",
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    "text": "Drown the loud groans and torture all the air.",
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    "text": "The hawks of heaven, that o’er the field had stood,",
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    "text": "Scared by the tumult from the scent of blood,",
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    "text": "Cleave the far gloom; the beasts forget their prey",
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    "text": "Zamor elate with horrid joy beheld",
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    "text": "The Sun depart, his children fly the field,",
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    "text": "And raised his rending voice: Thou darkening sky,",
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    "text": "Deepen thy damps, the fiend of death is nigh;",
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    "text": "Behold him rising from his shadowy throne,",
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    "text": "To veil this heaven and drive the conquer’d Sun;",
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    "text": "The glaring godhead yields to sacred night,",
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    "text": "And his foil’d armies imitate his flight.",
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    "text": "Confirm, infernal power, thy rightful reign,",
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    "text": "Give deadlier shades and heap the piles of slain;",
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    "text": "Soon the young captive prince shall roll in fire,",
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    "text": "And all his race accumulate the pyre.",
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    "text": "Ye mountain vultures, here your food explore,",
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    "text": "Tigers and condors, all ye gods of gore,",
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    "text": "In these rich fields, beneath your frowning sky,",
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    "text": "A plenteous feast shall every god supply.",
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    "text": "Rush forward, warriors, hide the plains with dead;",
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    "text": "’Twas here our friends in former combat bled;",
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    "text": "Strow’d through the waste their naked bones demand",
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    "text": "This tardy vengeance from our conquering hand.",
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    "text": "He said; and high before the tiger-train",
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    "text": "With longer strides hangs forward o’er the slain,",
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    "text": "Bends like a falling tree, to reach the foe",
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    "text": "And o’er tall Capac aims a forceful blow.",
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    "text": "The king beheld the ax, and with his wand",
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    "text": "Struck the raised weapon from the sachem’s hand;",
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    "text": "Then clencht the falling helve, and whirling round,",
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    "text": "Fell’d a close file of heroes to the ground;",
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    "text": "Nor stay’d, but follow’d where his people run,",
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    "text": "Fearing to fight, forsaken by the Sun;",
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    "text": "Till Cusco’s walls salute their longing sight,",
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    "text": "And the wide gates receive their rapid flight.",
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    "text": "The folds are barr’d, the foes in shade conceal’d,",
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    "text": "Like howling wolves, rave round the frighted field.",
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    "text": "The monarch now ascends the sacred dome;",
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    "text": "The Sun’s fixt image there partakes the gloom;",
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    "text": "Through all the shrines, where erst on new-moon days",
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    "text": "Swell’d the full choirs of consecrated praise,",
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    "text": "A tomb-like silence reigns; till female cries",
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   {
    "text": "Burst forth at last, and these sad accents rise:",
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   {
    "text": "Was it for this, my son to distant lands",
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   {
    "text": "Must trace the wilds and tempt those lawless bands?",
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   {
    "text": "And does the god obscure his golden throne",
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    "text": "In mournful darkness for my slaughter’d son?",
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    "text": "Oh, had his beam, ere that disastrous day",
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   {
    "text": "That call’d the youth from these fond arms away,",
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   {
    "text": "Received my spirit to its native sky,",
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    "text": "That sad Oella might have seen him die!",
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    "text": "Where slept thy shaft of vengeance, O my god!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When those fell tigers drank his sacred blood?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Did not the pious prince, with rites divine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Feed the pure flame in this thy hallow’d shrine?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And early learn, beneath his father’s hand,",
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   {
    "text": "To shed thy blessings round the favor’d land?",
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    "text": "Form’d by thy laws the royal seat to grace,",
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   {
    "text": "Son of thy son and glory of his race.",
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   {
    "text": "Where, my lost Rocha, rests thy lovely head?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where the rent robes thy hapless mother made?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I see thee mid those hideous hills of snow,",
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   {
    "text": "Pursued and slaughter’d by the wildman foe;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or doom’d a feast for some pretended god",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Drench his black altar with celestial blood.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Snatch me, O Sun, to happier worlds of light⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No, shroud me, shroud me with thyself in night.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou hear’st me not, thou dread departed Power,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy face is dark and Rocha lives no more.",
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    "text": "Thus heard the silent king; his equal heart",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Caught all her grief and bore a father’s part.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The cause suggested by her tender moan,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The cause perchance that veil’d the midday sun,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And shouts that spoke the still approaching foe",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fixt him suspense, in all the strength of woe.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A doubtful moment held his changing choice;",
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   {
    "text": "Now would he sooth her, half assumes his voice;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But greater cares the rising wish control",
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   {
    "text": "And call forth all his energy of soul.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why should he cease to ward the coming fate,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or she be told the foes besiege the gate?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He turn’d in haste; and now their image-god",
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   },
   {
    "text": "High on the spire with newborn lustre glow’d;",
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   {
    "text": "Swift through the portal flew the hero’s eye",
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   {
    "text": "And hail’d the growing splendor in the sky.",
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   {
    "text": "The troops courageous at return of light",
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   {
    "text": "Throng round the dome, impatient for the fight;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The king descending in the portal stood",
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   {
    "text": "And thus addrest the all-delighting god:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O sovereign soul of heaven, thy changing face",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Makes or destroys the glory of thy race.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If from this mortal life my child be fled,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "First of thy line that ever graced the dead;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If thy bright splendor ceased on high to burn",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For that loved youth who never must return,",
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   {
    "text": "Forgive thine armies, when in fields of blood",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They lose their strength and fear the frowning god.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As now thy glory with superior day",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Glows through the field and leads the warrior’s way,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "May our exalted souls, to vengeance driven,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Burn with new brightness in the cause of heaven.",
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   {
    "text": "For thy slain son the murderous horde shall bleed;",
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   {
    "text": "We mourn the hero, but avenge the deed.",
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   {
    "text": "He said; and from the battlement on high",
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   {
    "text": "A watchful warrior raised a sudden cry:",
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   {
    "text": "“An Inca white on yonder altar tied⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis Rocha’s self⁠—the flame ascends his side.”",
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    "text": "In sweeping haste the bursting gates unbar",
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   {
    "text": "And flood the champaign with a tide of war;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A cloud of arrows leads the rapid train,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They shout, they swarm, they hide the dusty plain;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bows, quivers, girdles strow the field behind,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the raised axes cleave the passing wind.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The prince, confest to every warrior’s sight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Inspires each soul and centres all the fight;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each hopes to snatch him from the kindling pyre,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each fears his breath already flits in fire.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Here Zamor ranged his ax-men deep and wide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wedged like a wall, and thus the king defied:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Haste! son of light, pour fast the winged war,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The prince, the dying prince demands your care;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hear how his death song chides your dull delay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lift longer strides, bend forward to the fray,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ere flames infolding suffocate his groan,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Child of your beaming god, a victim to our own.",
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    "text": "This said, he raised his shaggy shoulders high",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And bade the shafts glide thicker through the sky.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like the broad billows of the lifted main",
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   {
    "text": "Rolls into sight the long Peruvian train;",
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   {
    "text": "A white sail bounding on the billows tost,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is Capac towering o’er the furious host.",
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   {
    "text": "Now meet the dreadful chiefs, with eyes on fire;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Beneath their blows the parting ranks retire;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In whirlwind-sweep their meeting axes bound,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wheel, crash in air and plow the trembling ground;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their sinewy limbs in fierce contortions bend,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And mutual strokes with equal force descend,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Parried with equal art, now gyring prest",
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   },
   {
    "text": "High at the head, now plunging for the breast.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The king starts backward from the struggling foe,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Collects new strength and with a circling blow",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rusht furious on; his flinty edge, whirl’d wide",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Met Zamor’s helve and glancing grazed his side",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And settled in his groin; so plunged it lay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That scarce the king could tear his ax away.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The savage fell; when through the tiger-train",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The driving Inca turns his force amain;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where still compact they hem the murderous pyre,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And Rocha’s voice seems faltering to expire.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The frenzied father rages, thunders wild,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hews armies down to save the sinking child;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The ranks fall staggering where he lifts his arm",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or roll before him like a billowy storm;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Behind his steps collecting warriors close;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Deep centred in a circling ridge of foes",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He cleaves his wasting way; the prince unties,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And thus his voice: Dread sovereign of the skies.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Accept my living son, again bestow’d",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To grace with rites the temple of his god.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Move, heroes, move; complete the work begun,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Crush the grim race, avenge your injured Sun.",
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    "text": "The savage host, that view’d the daring deed",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And saw their nations with their captain bleed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Raised high the shriek of horror; all the plain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is trod with flight and cover’d with the slain.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The bold Peruvians compass round the field,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Confine their flight and force the rest to yield;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When Capac raised his placid voice again:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ye conquering troops, collect the vanquisht train;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The Sun commands to stay the rage of war,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He knows to conquer, but he loves to spare.",
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    "text": "He ceased; and where the savage leader lay",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Weltering in gore, directs his eager way,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unwraps the tiger’s hide and strives in vain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To close the wound and mitigate the pain;",
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   {
    "text": "And while compassion for a foe distrest",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mixt with reproach, he thus the chief addrest:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Too long, proud prince, thy fearless heart withstood",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Our sacred arms and braved the living god;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His sovereign will commands all feuds to cease,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His realm is concord and his pleasure peace;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This copious carnage, spreading far the plain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Insults his bounties, but confirms his reign.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Enough; ’tis past; thy parting breath demands",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The last sad office from my yielding hands.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To share thy pains and feel thy hopeless woe",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Are rites ungrateful to a fallen foe;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet rest in peace; and know, a chief so brave,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When life departs, shall find an honor’d grave;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Myself in princely pomp thy tomb shall rear",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And tribes unborn thy hapless fate declare.",
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    "text": "Insult me not with tombs! the monster cried,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let closing clods thy coward carcase hide;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But these brave bones unburied on the plain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Touch not with dust nor dare with rites profane;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let no curst earth conceal this gory head,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor songs proclaim the dreadful Zamor dead.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Me, whom the hungry gods from plain to plain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have follow’d, feasting on thy slaughter’d train,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Me wouldst thou cover? no! from yonder sky,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The wide-beak hawk, that now beholds me die,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Soon with his cowering train my flesh shall tear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And wolves and tigers vindicate their share.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Receive, dread Powers (since I can slay no more),",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My last glad victim, this devoved gore.",
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    "text": "Thus pour’d the vengeful chief his fainting breath",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And lost his utterance in the gasp of death.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sad remaining tribes confess the power,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That sheds his bounties round Peruvia’s shore;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All bow obedient to the Incan throne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And blest Oella hails her living son.",
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