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 "title": "Book V",
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 "poet": "Joel Barlow",
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    "text": "Columbus hail’d them with a father’s smile,",
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    "text": "Fruits of his cares and children of his toil;",
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    "text": "While still his eyes through tears of joy descried",
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    "text": "Their course adventurous on the distant tide.",
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    "text": "Thus when o’er deluged earth her Numen stood,",
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    "text": "The tost ark bounding on the shoreless flood,",
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    "text": "The sacred treasure fixt his guardian view,",
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    "text": "While climes unnoticed in the wave withdrew.",
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    "text": "The hero saw them reach the rising strand,",
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    "text": "Leap from their ships and share the joyous land;",
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    "text": "Receding forests yield the laborers room,",
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    "text": "And opening wilds with fields and gardens bloom.",
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    "text": "Fill’d with the glance ecstatic, all his soul",
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    "text": "Now seems unbounded with the scene to roll,",
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    "text": "And now impatient, with retorted eye,",
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    "text": "Perceives his station in another sky:",
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    "text": "Waft me, indulgent Angel, waft me o’er",
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    "text": "With those blest heroes to the happy shore;",
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    "text": "There let me live and die. But all appears",
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    "text": "A fleeting vision! these are future years.",
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    "text": "Yet grant the illusion still may nearer spread",
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    "text": "And my glad steps may seem their walks to tread;",
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    "text": "While Europe wrapt in momentary night",
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    "text": "Shall rise no more to intercept the sight.",
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    "text": "Columbus thus; when Hesper’s potent hand",
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    "text": "Moves brightening o’er the visionary land;",
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    "text": "The height that bore them still sublimer grew",
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    "text": "And earth’s whole circuit settled from their view.",
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    "text": "A dusky deep serene as breathless even",
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    "text": "Seem’d vaulting downward like another heaven;",
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    "text": "The sun, rejoicing on his western way,",
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    "text": "Stampt his fair image in the inverted day:",
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    "text": "When now Hesperia’s coast arose more nigh",
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   {
    "text": "And life and action fill’d the dancing eye.",
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    "text": "Between the gulfs, where Lawrence drains the world",
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    "text": "And where Floridia’s farthest floods are curl’d,",
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    "text": "Where midlands broad their swelling mountains heave",
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    "text": "And slope their champaigns to the Atlantic wave,",
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    "text": "The sandy streambank and the woodgreen plain",
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    "text": "Raise into sight the new made seats of man.",
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    "text": "The placid ports that break the seaborn gales",
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    "text": "Rear their tall masts and stretch aloft their sails;",
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    "text": "Full harvests wave, the groves with fruitage bend,",
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    "text": "Gay villas smile, defensive towers ascend;",
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    "text": "All the rich works of art their charms display",
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    "text": "To court the planter and his cares repay:",
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    "text": "Till war invades; when soon the dales disclose",
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    "text": "Their meadows path’d with files of savage foes;",
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    "text": "High tufted quills their painted foreheads press,",
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    "text": "Dark spoils of beasts their shaggy shoulders dress,",
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    "text": "The bow bent forward for the combat strung,",
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    "text": "The ax, the quiver on the girdle hung;",
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    "text": "The deep discordant yells convulse the air,",
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    "text": "And earth resounds the war whoop’s hideous blare.",
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    "text": "The patriarch lookt; and every darken’d height",
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    "text": "Pours down the swarthy nations to the fight.",
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    "text": "Where Kennebec’s high source forsakes the sky,",
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    "text": "Where long Champlain’s yet unkeel’d waters lie,",
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    "text": "Where Hudson crowds his hill-dissundering tide,",
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    "text": "Where Kaatskill heights the starry vault divide,",
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    "text": "Where the dim Alleganies range sublime",
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    "text": "And give their streams to every neighboring clime,",
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   {
    "text": "The swarms descended like an evening shade,",
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    "text": "And wolves and vultures follow’d where they spread.",
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   {
    "text": "Thus when a storm on eastern pinions driven",
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    "text": "Meets the firm Andes in the midst of heaven,",
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    "text": "The clouds convulse, the torrents pour amain",
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    "text": "And the black waters sweep the subject plain.",
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    "text": "Through harvest fields the bloody myriads tread,",
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    "text": "Sack the lone village, strow the streets with dead;",
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   {
    "text": "The flames in spiry volumes round them rise,",
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    "text": "And shrieks and shouts redoubling rend the skies.",
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    "text": "Fair babes and matrons in their domes expire",
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    "text": "Or bursting frantic through the folding fire",
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    "text": "They scream, fly, fall; promiscuous rave along",
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    "text": "The yelling victors and the driven throng;",
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   {
    "text": "The streams run purple; all the peopled shore",
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    "text": "Is wrapt in flames and trod with steps of gore.",
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    "text": "Till colons, gathering from the shorelands far,",
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    "text": "Stretch their new standards and oppose the war,",
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   {
    "text": "With muskets match the many-shafted bow,",
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    "text": "With loud artillery stun the astonisht foe.",
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    "text": "When like a broken wave the barbarous train",
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    "text": "Lead back the flight and scatter from the plain,",
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    "text": "Slay their weak captives, drop their shafts in haste,",
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    "text": "Forget their spoils and scour the trackless waste;",
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    "text": "From wood to wood in wild confusion hurl’d",
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    "text": "They hurry o’er the hills far through the savage world.",
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    "text": "Now move secure the cheerful works of peace,",
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   {
    "text": "New temples rise and fruitful fields increase.",
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    "text": "Where Delaware’s wide waves behold with pride",
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    "text": "Penn’s beauteous town ascending on their side,",
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    "text": "The crossing streets in just alignment run,",
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    "text": "The walls and pavements sparkle to the sun.",
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   {
    "text": "Like that famed city rose the checker’d plan,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose spacious towers Semiramis began;",
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   {
    "text": "Long ages finisht what her hand design’d,",
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    "text": "The pride of kings and wonder of mankind.",
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    "text": "New York ascends o’er Hudson’s seaward isles",
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    "text": "And flings the sunbeams from her glittering tiles;",
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    "text": "Albania, opening through the distant wood,",
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    "text": "Rolls her rich treasures on her parent flood;",
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    "text": "Amid a thousand sails young Boston laves,",
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    "text": "High looms majestic Newport o’er the waves,",
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    "text": "Patapsco’s bay contracts his yielding side,",
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    "text": "As spreading Baltimore invades his tide;",
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    "text": "Aspiring Richmond tops the bank of James,",
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    "text": "And Charleston sways her two contending streams.",
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    "text": "Through each colonial realm, for wisdom great,",
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   {
    "text": "Elected sires assume the cares of state;",
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   {
    "text": "Nursed in equality, to freedom bred,",
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    "text": "Firm is their step and straight the paths they tread;",
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    "text": "Dispensing justice with paternal hand,",
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    "text": "By laws of peace they rule the happy land;",
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   {
    "text": "While reason’s page their statute codes unfold,",
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    "text": "And rights and charters flame in figured gold.",
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    "text": "All rights that Britons know they here transfuse,",
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   {
    "text": "Their sense invigorate and expand their views,",
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   {
    "text": "Dare every height of human soul to scan,",
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   {
    "text": "Find, fathom, scope the moral breadth of man,",
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   {
    "text": "Learn how his social powers may still dilate",
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    "text": "And tone their tension to a stronger state.",
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    "text": "Gaul’s migrant sons explore the western day",
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    "text": "Stretch over Canada their colon sway,",
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    "text": "Plant sylvan Wabash with a watchful post,",
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    "text": "O’er Mississippi spread a mantling host,",
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    "text": "Bid Louisiana’s lovely clime prepare",
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    "text": "New arts to prove and infant states to rear;",
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    "text": "While the bright lakes, that wide behind them spread,",
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    "text": "Unfold their channels to the paths of trade,",
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    "text": "Ohio’s waves their destined honors claim",
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    "text": "And smile, as conscious of approaching fame.",
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    "text": "But Gallic planters still their trammels wear,",
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    "text": "Their feudal genius still attends them here;",
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    "text": "Dependent feelings for a distant throne",
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    "text": "Gyve the crampt soul that fears to think alone,",
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    "text": "Demand their rulers from the parent land,",
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    "text": "Laws ready made and generals to command.",
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    "text": "Judge, priest and pedagogue and all the slaves",
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    "text": "Of foreign masters crowding o’er the waves",
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    "text": "Spread thick the shades of vassalage and sloth,",
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    "text": "Absorb their labors and prevent their growth,",
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    "text": "Damp every thought that might their tyrants brave,",
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    "text": "And keep the vast domain a desert and a grave.",
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    "text": "Too soon the mother states with jealous fear",
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    "text": "Transport their feuds and homebred quarrels here.",
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    "text": "Now Gallia’s war-built barks ascend in sight,",
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    "text": "White flags unfold and armies robed in white,",
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    "text": "On all the frontier streams their forts prepare",
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    "text": "And coop our cantons with surrounding war.",
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    "text": "Quebec, as proud she rears her rocky seat,",
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    "text": "Feeds their full camp and shades their anchored fleet;",
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    "text": "Oswego’s rampart frowns athwart his flood,",
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    "text": "And wild Ontario swells beneath his load.",
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    "text": "And now an equal host from Albion’s strand",
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    "text": "Arrives to aid her young colonial band.",
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    "text": "They join their force and tow’rd the falling day",
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    "text": "Impetuous Braddock leads their hasty way;",
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    "text": "O’er Allegany heights, like streams of fire,",
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    "text": "The red flags wave and glittering arms aspire",
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    "text": "To meet the savage hordes, who there advance",
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    "text": "Their skulking files to join the arms of France.",
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    "text": "Where, old as earth, yet still unstain’d with blood,",
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    "text": "Monongahela roll’d his careless flood,",
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    "text": "Flankt with his mantling groves the fountful hills,",
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   {
    "text": "Drain’d the vast region through his thousand rills,",
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    "text": "Lured o’er his lawns the buffle herds, and spread",
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    "text": "For all his fowls his piscatory glade;",
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    "text": "But now perceives, with hostile flag unfurl’d,",
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    "text": "A Gallic fortress awe the western world;",
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    "text": "There Braddock bends his march; the troops within",
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    "text": "Behold their danger and the fire begin.",
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    "text": "Forth bursting from the gates they rush amain,",
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    "text": "Front, flank and charge the fast approaching train;",
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    "text": "The batteries blaze, the leaden volleys pour,",
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    "text": "The vales, the streams, the solid mountains roar;",
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    "text": "Clouds of convolving smoke the welkin spread,",
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    "text": "The champaign shrouding in sulphureous shade.",
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    "text": "Lost in the rocking thunder’s loud career,",
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    "text": "No shouts nor groans invade the Patriarch’s ear,",
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    "text": "Nor valorous feats are seen nor flight nor fall,",
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    "text": "But one broad burst of darkness buries all.",
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    "text": "Till chased by rising winds the smoke withdrew,",
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    "text": "And the wide slaughter open’d on his view.",
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    "text": "He saw the British leader borne afar",
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    "text": "In dust and gore, beyond the wings of war;",
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    "text": "And while delirious panic seized his host,",
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    "text": "Their flags, their arms in wild confusion tost,",
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    "text": "Bold in the midst a youthful warrior strode",
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    "text": "And tower’d undaunted o’er the field of blood;",
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    "text": "He checks the shameful rout, with vengeance burns,",
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    "text": "And the pale Britons brighten where he turns.",
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    "text": "So, when thick vapors veil the nightly sky",
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    "text": "The starry host in half-seen lustre fly,",
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    "text": "Till phosphor rises o’er the twinkling crowd",
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    "text": "And gives new splendor through his parting cloud.",
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    "text": "Swift on a fiery steed the stripling rose,",
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    "text": "Form’d the light files to pierce the line of foes;",
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    "text": "Then waved his gleamy sword that flasht the day,",
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    "text": "And through the Gallic legions hew’d his way:",
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    "text": "His troops press forward like a loose-broke flood,",
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    "text": "Sweep ranks away and smear their paths in blood;",
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    "text": "The hovering foes pursue the combat far",
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    "text": "And shower their balls along the flying war;",
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    "text": "When the new leader turns his single force,",
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    "text": "Points the flight forward, speeds his backward course;",
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    "text": "The French recoiling half their victory yield,",
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    "text": "And the glad Britons quit the fatal field.",
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    "text": "These deathful deeds as great Columbus eyed,",
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   {
    "text": "With anxious tone he thus addrest the Guide:",
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   {
    "text": "Why combat here these transatlantic bands",
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   {
    "text": "And strow their corses through thy pathless lands?",
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   {
    "text": "Can Europe’s realms, the seat of endless strife,",
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   {
    "text": "Afford no trophies for the waste of life?",
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   {
    "text": "Can monarchs there no proud applauses gain,",
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   {
    "text": "No living laurel for their people slain?",
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   {
    "text": "Nor Belgia’s plains, so fertile made with gore,",
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   {
    "text": "Hide heroes’ bones nor feast the vultures more?",
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   {
    "text": "Will Rhine no longer cleanse the crimson stain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor Danube bear their bodies to the main,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That infant empires here the shock must feel,",
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   {
    "text": "And these pure streams with foreign carnage swell?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But who that chief? his name, his nation say,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose lifeblood seems his follies to repay;",
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    "text": "And who the youth, that from the combat lost",
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    "text": "Springs up and saves the remnant of his host?",
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    "text": "The Power replied: Each age successive brings",
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    "text": "Their varying views to earth’s contentious kings;",
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    "text": "Here roll the years when Albion’s parent hand,",
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    "text": "In aid of thy brave children, guards the land;",
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    "text": "That growing states their veteran force may train,",
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    "text": "A nobler prize in later fields to gain;",
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    "text": "In fields where Albion’s self shall turn their foe,",
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    "text": "Spread broader sails and aim a deadlier blow,",
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    "text": "Recross in evil hour the astonisht wave,",
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    "text": "Her own brave sons to ravage and enslave.",
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    "text": "But here she combats with the powers of Gaul;",
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    "text": "Here her bold Braddock finds his destined fall;",
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    "text": "Thy Washington in that young martial frame",
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    "text": "From yon lost field begins a life of fame.",
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    "text": "’Tis he, in future straits with loftier stride,",
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    "text": "The colon states to sovereign rule shall guide;",
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    "text": "When, prest by wrongs, their own full force they find,",
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    "text": "To wield the sword for man, and bulwark humankind.",
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    "text": "The Seraph spoke; when through the purpled air",
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    "text": "The northern armies spread the flames of war.",
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    "text": "Swift o’er the lake, to Crownpoint’s fortful strand",
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    "text": "Rash Abercrombie leads his headlong band",
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    "text": "To fierce unequal fight; the batteries roar,",
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    "text": "Shield the strong foes and rake the banner’d shore;",
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    "text": "Britannia’s sons again the contest yield;",
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    "text": "Again proud Gaul triumphant sweeps the field.",
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    "text": "But Amherst quick renews the raging toil",
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    "text": "And drives wide hosting o’er Acadia’s isle;",
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    "text": "Young Wolfe beside him points the lifted lance,",
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    "text": "The boast of Britain and the scourge of France.",
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    "text": "The tide of victory here the heroes turn",
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    "text": "And Gallic navies in their harbors burn;",
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    "text": "High flame the ships, the billows swell with gore,",
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    "text": "Wolfe, now detacht and bent on bolder deeds,",
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    "text": "A sail-borne host up sealike Lawrence leads,",
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    "text": "Stems the long lessening tide; till Abraham’s height",
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    "text": "And famed Quebec rise frowning into sight,",
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    "text": "Swift bounding on the bank, the foe they claim,",
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    "text": "Climb the tall mountain, like a rolling flame,",
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    "text": "Push wide their wings high bannering bright the air",
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    "text": "And move to fight as comets cope in war.",
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    "text": "The smoke falls folding through the downward sky",
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    "text": "And shrouds the mountain from the patriarch’s eye;",
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    "text": "While on the towering top, in glare of day,",
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    "text": "The flashing swords in fiery arches play.",
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    "text": "As on a side-seen storm, adistance driven,",
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    "text": "The flames fork round the semivault of heaven,",
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    "text": "Thick thunders roll, descending torrents flow,",
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    "text": "Dash down the clouds and whelm the hills below;",
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    "text": "Or as on plains of light when Michael strove,",
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    "text": "The swords of cherubim to combat move,",
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    "text": "Ten thousand fiery forms together fray",
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    "text": "And flash new lightning on empyreal day.",
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    "text": "Long raged promiscuous combat, half conceal’d,",
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    "text": "When sudden parle suspended all the field;",
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    "text": "Then roar the shouts, the smoke forsakes the plain,",
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    "text": "And the huge hill is topt with heaps of slain.",
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    "text": "Stretch’d high in air Britannia’s standard waved",
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    "text": "And good Columbus hail’d his country saved;",
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    "text": "While calm and silent, where the ranks retire,",
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    "text": "He saw brave Wolfe in victory’s arms expire.",
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    "text": "So the pale moon, when morning beams arise,",
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    "text": "Veils her lone visage in her midway skies;",
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    "text": "She needs no longer drive the shades away,",
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    "text": "Nor waits to view the glories of the day.",
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    "text": "Again the towns aspire; the cultured field",
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    "text": "And crowded mart their copious treasures yield;",
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    "text": "Back to his plow the colon soldier moves,",
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    "text": "And songs of triumph fill the warbling groves,",
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    "text": "The conscious flocks, returning joys that share,",
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    "text": "Spread through the grassland o’er the walks of war;",
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    "text": "Streams freed of gore their crystal course regain,",
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    "text": "Serener sunbeams gild the tentless plain;",
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    "text": "A general jubilee o’er earth and heaven",
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    "text": "Leads the gay morn and lights the lambent even.",
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    "text": "Rejoicing, confident of long repose,",
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    "text": "(Their friends triumphant, far retired their foes)",
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    "text": "The British colonies now feel their sway",
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    "text": "Span the whole north and crowd the western day.",
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    "text": "Acadia, Canada, earth’s total side,",
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    "text": "From Slave’s long lake to Pensacola’s tide,",
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    "text": "Expand their soils for them; and here unfold",
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    "text": "A range of highest hope, a promised age of gold.",
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    "text": "But soon from eastern seas dark vapors rise,",
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    "text": "Sweep the vast Occident and shroud the skies,",
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    "text": "Snatch all the vision from the Hero’s sight",
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    "text": "And wrap the coast in sudden shades of night.",
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    "text": "He turn’d, and sorrowful besought the Power:",
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    "text": "Why sinks the scene, or must I view no more?",
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    "text": "Must here the fame of that young world descend?",
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    "text": "Shall our brave children find so quick their end?",
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    "text": "Where then the promised grace? “Thou soon shalt see",
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    "text": "That half mankind shall owe their home to thee.”",
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    "text": "The Saint replied: Ere long, beneath thy view",
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    "text": "Here march the troublous years when goaded sore",
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    "text": "Thy sons shall rise to change the ruling power;",
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    "text": "When Albion’s prince, who sways the happy land,",
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    "text": "To lawless rule extends his tyrant hand.",
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    "text": "To bind in slavery’s bands the peaceful host,",
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    "text": "Their rights unguarded and their charters lost.",
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    "text": "Now raise thine eye; from this delusive claim",
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    "text": "What nations leap to life, what deeds adorn their fame!",
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    "text": "Columbus look’d; and still around them spread",
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    "text": "From south to north the immeasurable shade;",
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    "text": "At last the central darkness burst away,",
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    "text": "Once more bright Delaware’s commercial stream",
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    "text": "And Penn’s throng’d city cast a cheerful gleam;",
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    "text": "The dome of state, as conscious of his eye,",
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    "text": "Now seem’d to silver in a loftier sky,",
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    "text": "Unfolding fair its gates; when lo, within",
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    "text": "The assembled states in solemn Congress shine.",
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    "text": "The sires elect from every province came,",
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    "text": "Where wide Columbia bore the British name,",
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    "text": "Where Freedom’s sons their highborn lineage trace,",
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    "text": "And homebred bravery still exalts the race:",
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    "text": "Her sons who plant each various vast domain",
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    "text": "That Chesapeake’s uncounted currents drain;",
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    "text": "The race who Roanoke’s clear stream bestride,",
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    "text": "(Their cumbrous cargoes, to the sail consign’d,",
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    "text": "Seek distant worlds, and feed and clothe mankind;)",
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    "text": "Whose verdant vines Oconee’s bank adorn;",
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    "text": "Who freight the Delaware with golden grain,",
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    "text": "The virtuous delegates behold with pain",
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    "text": "The hostile Britons hovering o’er the main,",
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    "text": "Lament the strife that bids two worlds engage",
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    "text": "And blot their annals with fraternal rage;",
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    "text": "Two worlds in one broad state, whose bounds bestride,",
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    "text": "Like heaven’s blue arch, the vast Atlantic tide,",
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    "text": "By language, laws and liberty combined,",
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    "text": "Great nurse of thought, example to mankind.",
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    "text": "Columbia rears her warning voice in vain,",
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    "text": "Brothers to brothers call across the main;",
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    "text": "Britannia’s patriots lend a listening ear,",
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    "text": "But kings and courtiers push their mad career;",
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    "text": "Dissension raves, the sheathless falchions glare,",
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    "text": "And earth and ocean tremble at the war.",
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    "text": "Thus with stern brow, as worn by cares of state,",
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    "text": "His bosom big with dark unfolding fate,",
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    "text": "High o’er his lance the sacred Eagle spread,",
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    "text": "Rome’s hoary Genius rose and mournful stood",
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    "text": "On roaring Rubicon’s forbidden flood,",
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    "text": "When Caesar’s ensigns swept the Alpine air,",
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    "text": "Led their long legions from the Gallic war,",
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    "text": "Paused on the opposing bank with wings unfurl’d,",
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    "text": "And waved portentous o’er the shuddering world.",
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    "text": "The god, with outstretcht arm and awful look,",
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    "text": "Call’d the proud victor and prophetic spoke:",
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    "text": "Arrest, my son, thy parricidious hate,",
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    "text": "Pass not the stream nor stab my filial state,",
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    "text": "Stab not thyself, thy friends, thy total kind",
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    "text": "And worlds and ages in one state combined.",
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    "text": "The chief, regardless of the warning god",
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    "text": "Rein’d his rude steed and headlong past the flood,",
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    "text": "Cried, farewell peace! took Fortune for his guide",
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    "text": "And o’er his country pour’d the slaughtering tide.",
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    "text": "High on the foremost seat in living light",
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    "text": "Resplendent Randolph caught the world’s full sight.",
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    "text": "He opes the cause, and points in prospect far",
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   {
    "text": "Through all the toils that wait impending war:",
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    "text": "But, reverend sage! thy race must soon be o’er",
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   {
    "text": "To lend thy lustre and to shine no more.",
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   {
    "text": "So the mild morning star from shades of even",
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    "text": "Leads up the dawn and lights the front of heaven,",
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    "text": "Points to the waking world the sun’s broad way,",
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   {
    "text": "Then veils his own and vaults above the day.",
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   {
    "text": "And see bright Washington behind thee rise,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy following sun to gild our morning skies",
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   {
    "text": "O’er shadowy climes to pour enlivening flame,",
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    "text": "The charms of freedom and the fire of fame.",
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    "text": "For him the patriot bay beheld with pride",
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    "text": "The hero’s laurel springing by its side;",
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    "text": "His sword still sleeping rested on his thigh,",
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    "text": "On Britain still he cast a filial eye;",
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    "text": "But sovereign fortitude his visage bore,",
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    "text": "To meet her legions on the invaded shore.",
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    "text": "Sage Franklin next arose with cheerful mien",
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    "text": "And smiled unruffled o’er the solemn scene;",
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    "text": "His locks of age a various wreath embraced,",
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    "text": "Palm of all arts that e’er a mortal graced;",
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    "text": "Beneath him lay the sceptre kings had borne",
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    "text": "Wythe, Mason, Pendleton with Henry join’d,",
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    "text": "Rush, Rodney, Langdon, friends of humankind,",
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    "text": "Persuasive Dickinson the former’s boast,",
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    "text": "Recording Thomson pride of all the host,",
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    "text": "Nash, Jay, the Livingstons, in council great,",
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    "text": "Rutledge and Laurens held the rolls of fate,",
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   {
    "text": "O’er wide creation turn’d their ardent eyes",
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   {
    "text": "And bade the opprest to selfexistence rise;",
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    "text": "All powers of state, in their extended plan,",
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   {
    "text": "Spring from consent, to shield the rights of man.",
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    "text": "Undaunted Wolcott urged the holy cause,",
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    "text": "With steady hand the solemn scene he draws;",
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    "text": "Stern thoughtful temperance with his ardor join’d,",
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    "text": "Nor kings nor worlds could warp his steadfast mind.",
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    "text": "With graceful ease but energetic tones",
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    "text": "And eloquence that shook a thousand thrones,",
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    "text": "Majestic Hosmer stood; the expanding soul",
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   {
    "text": "Darts from his eyebeams while his accents roll.",
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   {
    "text": "But lo, the shaft of death untimely flew",
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    "text": "And fell’d the patriot from the Hero’s view;",
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   {
    "text": "Wrapt in the funeral shroud he sees descend",
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    "text": "The guide of nations and the Muse’s friend.",
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   {
    "text": "Columbus dropt a tear; while Hesper’s eye",
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   {
    "text": "Traced the freed spirit mounting through the sky.",
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    "text": "Each generous Adams, freedom’s favorite pair,",
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   {
    "text": "And Hancock rose the tyrant’s rage to dare,",
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   {
    "text": "Groupt with firm Jefferson, her steadiest hope,",
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   {
    "text": "Of modest mien but vast unclouded scope.",
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   {
    "text": "Like four strong pillars of her state they stand,",
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    "text": "They clear from doubt her brave but wavering band;",
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    "text": "Colonial charters in their hands they bore",
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    "text": "And lawless acts of ministerial power.",
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    "text": "Some injured right in every page appears,",
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    "text": "Here, glorious Warren, thy cold earth was seen,",
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    "text": "Picks off the pippin from the smiling boy,",
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    "text": "Soon by an equal dart the tyrant bleeds,",
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    "text": "The cantons league, the work of fate proceeds;",
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    "text": "Fat the fair fields they lorded long before;",
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    "text": "Bland, Moylan, Sheldon the long lines enforce",
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    "text": "The long black rows in sullen silence wait,",
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    "text": "Their grim jaws gaping, soon to utter fate;",
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    "text": "Two foreign youths had caught the splendent flame,",
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    "text": "To fame’s hard school the warm disciples came;",
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    "text": "To learn sage Liberty’s unlesson’d lore,",
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    "text": "To brave the tempest on her war-beat shore,",
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    "text": "Prometheus like to snatch a beam of day",
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    "text": "Though Austria’s kaiser and the Russian czar",
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    "text": "To dungeons doom them and with fetters mar,",
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    "text": "The morn shall move and slumbering nations rise.",
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    "text": "And though their despots quake with wild alarms",
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    "text": "And turn against themselves the raging flood;",
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    "text": "And bless the labors of the imprison’d Pair.",
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    "text": "She hail’d her heroes from their finisht wars,",
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    "text": "Assigned their place amid the cluster’d stars,",
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    "text": "Bade round the eternal sky their trophies flame",
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    "text": "And charged the zodiac with their deathless fame.",
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   {
    "text": "—Here move the strangers, here in freedom’s cause",
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   {
    "text": "His untried blade each stripling hero draws,",
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   {
    "text": "On the great chief their eyes in transport roll,",
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   {
    "text": "And war and Washington renerve the soul.",
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    "text": "Steuben advanced in veteran armor drest,",
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   {
    "text": "For Prussian lore distinguisht o’er the rest,",
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   {
    "text": "The tactic lore; to this he bends his care",
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   {
    "text": "And here transplants the discipline of war.",
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    "text": "Other brave chieftains of illustrious name",
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    "text": "Rise into sight and equal honors claim;",
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   {
    "text": "But who can tell the dew-drops of the morn",
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   {
    "text": "Or count the rays that in the diamond burn?",
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   {
    "text": "—Grieve not, my valiant friends; the faithful song",
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   {
    "text": "Shall soon redress the momentary wrong;",
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   {
    "text": "Your own bright swords have cleaved your course to fame",
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   {
    "text": "And all her hundred tongues recognize every claim.",
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    "text": "Now the broad field as untaught warriors shade,",
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   {
    "text": "The sun’s glad beam their shining arms display’d;",
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   {
    "text": "High waved great Washington his glittering steel,",
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   {
    "text": "Bade the long train in circling order wheel;",
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   {
    "text": "And, while the banner’d youths around him prest,",
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   {
    "text": "With voice revered he thus the ranks addrest:",
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   {
    "text": "Ye generous bands, behold the task to save,",
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   {
    "text": "Or yield whole nations to an instant grave.",
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   {
    "text": "See hosted myriads crowding to your shore,",
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   {
    "text": "Hear from all ports their vollied thunders roar;",
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   {
    "text": "From Boston heights their bloody standards play,",
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   {
    "text": "O’er long Champlain they lead their northern way,",
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   {
    "text": "Virginian banks behold their streamers glide,",
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   {
    "text": "And hostile navies load each southern tide.",
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   {
    "text": "Beneath their steps your towns in ashes lie,",
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   {
    "text": "Your inland empires feast their greedy eye;",
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   {
    "text": "Soon shall your fields to lordly parks be turn’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Your children butcher’d and your villas burn’d;",
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   {
    "text": "While following millions, through the reign of time.",
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   {
    "text": "Who claim their birth in this indulgent clime,",
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   {
    "text": "Bend the weak knee, to servile toils consigned,",
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   {
    "text": "And sloth and slavery still degrade mankind.",
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   {
    "text": "Rise then to war, to timely vengeance rise,",
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   {
    "text": "Ere the gray sire, the helpless infant dies;",
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   {
    "text": "Look through the world, see endless years descend,",
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   {
    "text": "What realms, what ages on your arms depend!",
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   {
    "text": "Reverse the fate, avenge the insulted sky,",
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    "text": "Move to the work; we conquer or we die.",
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    "text": "So spoke Columbia’s chief; his guiding hand",
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    "text": "Points out their march to every ardent band,",
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    "text": "Assigns to each brave leader, as they claim,",
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    "text": "His test of valor and his task of fame.",
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    "text": "With his young host Montgomery first moves forth",
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   {
    "text": "To crush the vast invasion of the north;",
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   {
    "text": "O’er streams and lakes their flags far onward play,",
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   {
    "text": "Navies and forts surrendering mark their way;",
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   {
    "text": "Rocks, fens and deserts thwart the paths they go,",
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   {
    "text": "And hills before them lose their crags in snow.",
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   {
    "text": "Loud Lawrence, clogg’d with ice, indignant feels",
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   {
    "text": "Their sleet-clad oars, choked helms and crusted keels;",
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    "text": "They buffet long his tides; when rise in sight",
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    "text": "Quebec’s dread walls, and Wolfe’s unclouded height.",
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    "text": "Already there a few brave patriots stood,",
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    "text": "Worn down with toil, by famine half subdued;",
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   {
    "text": "Untrencht before the town they dare oppose",
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    "text": "Their fielded cohorts to the forted foes.",
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   {
    "text": "Ah gallant troop! deprived of half the praise",
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    "text": "That deeds like yours in other times repays,",
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   {
    "text": "Since your prime chief (the favorite erst of fame)",
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    "text": "Hath sunk so deep his hateful, hideous name,",
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    "text": "That every honest Muse with horror flings",
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    "text": "The name unsounded from her sacred strings;",
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    "text": "Else what high tones of rapture must have told",
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   {
    "text": "The first great action of a chief so bold!",
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   {
    "text": "’Twas his, ’twas yours, to brave unusual storms,",
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    "text": "To tame rude nature in her drearest forms;",
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   {
    "text": "Foodless and guideless, through that waste of earth,",
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    "text": "You marcht long months; and, sore reduced by dearth,",
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    "text": "Reacht the proud capital, too feeble far",
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    "text": "To tempt unaided such a task of war;",
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    "text": "Till now Montgomery’s host with hopes elate",
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    "text": "Joins your scant powers, to try the test of fate.",
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    "text": "With skilful glance he views the fortress round.",
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    "text": "Bristled with pikes, with dark artillery crown’d;",
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    "text": "Resolves with naked steel to scale the towers",
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    "text": "And snatch a realm from Britain’s hostile powers.",
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    "text": "Now drear December’s boreal blasts arise,",
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   {
    "text": "A roaring hailstorm sweeps the shuddering skies,",
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    "text": "Night with condensing horror mantles all",
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    "text": "And trembling watch-lights glimmer from the wall.",
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   {
    "text": "From bombs o’erarching, fusing, bursting high,",
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   {
    "text": "The glare scarce wanders through the loaded sky;",
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   {
    "text": "And in the louder shock of meteors drown’d,",
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    "text": "The accustom’d ear in vain expects the sound.",
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    "text": "He points the assault, and, through the howling air",
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    "text": "O’er rocky ramparts leads audacious war.",
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    "text": "Swift rise the rapid files, the walls are red",
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    "text": "With flashing flames that show the piles of dead;",
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    "text": "Till back recoiling from the ranks of slain,",
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    "text": "They leave their leader with a feeble train,",
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    "text": "Begirt with foes within the sounding wall",
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    "text": "Who thick beneath his single sabre fall.",
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   {
    "text": "But short the conflict; others hemm’d him round,",
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    "text": "And brave Montgomery prest the gory ground.",
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   {
    "text": "A second Wolfe Columbus here beheld,",
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    "text": "In youthful charms, a soul undaunted yield;",
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    "text": "Forlorn, o’erpower’d, his hardy host remains",
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    "text": "Stretcht by his side or led in captive chains.",
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   {
    "text": "Macpherson, Cheesman share their general’s doom;",
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    "text": "Meigs, Morgan, Dearborn, planning deeds to come,",
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    "text": "Resign impatient prisoners; soon to wield",
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    "text": "Their happier falchions in a broader field.",
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    "text": "Triumphant to New York’s ill forted post",
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    "text": "Britannia turns her vast amphibious host,",
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    "text": "That seas and storms, obedient to her hand",
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    "text": "Heave and discharge on every distant land;",
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    "text": "Fleets, floating batteries shake Manhattan’s shore,",
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   {
    "text": "And Hellgate rocks reverberate the roar.",
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    "text": "Swift o’er the shuddering isles that line the bay",
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    "text": "The red flags wave and battering engines play;",
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   {
    "text": "Howe leads aland the interminable train,",
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   {
    "text": "While his bold brother still bestorms the main,",
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    "text": "Great Albion’s double pride, both famed afar",
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   {
    "text": "On each vext element, each world of war,",
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    "text": "Where British rapine follows peaceful toil",
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    "text": "And murders nations, but to seize their spoil.",
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    "text": "Wide sweep the veteran myriads o’er the strand,",
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    "text": "Outnumbering thrice the raw colonial band;",
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   {
    "text": "Flatbush and Harlem sink beneath their fires,",
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    "text": "Brave Stirling yields and Sullivan retires.",
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    "text": "In vain sage Washington from hill to hill",
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    "text": "Plays round his foes with more than Fabian skill,",
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    "text": "Retreats, advances, lures them to his snare,",
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   {
    "text": "To balance numbers by the shifts of war.",
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    "text": "For not their swords alone, but fell disease",
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   {
    "text": "Thins his chill camp and chokes the sedgy seas.",
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   {
    "text": "The baleful malady from Sirius sent,",
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   {
    "text": "Floats in each breeze, impesting every tent,",
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    "text": "Strikes the young soldier with the morning ray",
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    "text": "And lays him lifeless ere the close of day,",
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    "text": "Far from his father’s house, his mother’s care",
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    "text": "And all the charities that nursed him there.",
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    "text": "Dampt is the native rage that first impell’d",
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    "text": "The insulted colons to the battling field;",
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    "text": "When first their high-soul’d sentiment of right",
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    "text": "And full-vein’d vigor nerved their arm to fight.",
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    "text": "For stript of health, benumb’d thy vital flood,",
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    "text": "Thy muscles laxt and decomposed thy blood,",
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   {
    "text": "What is thy courage, man? a foodless flame,",
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    "text": "A light unseen, a soul without a frame.",
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    "text": "Each day the decimated ranks forgo",
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    "text": "Their dying comrades to repulse the foe,",
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    "text": "And each damp night along the slippery trench",
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    "text": "Breathe at their post the suffocating stench;",
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    "text": "They sink by hundreds on the vapory soil,",
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    "text": "Till a new fight relieves their deadlier toil.",
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    "text": "At last from fruitless combat, sore defeat,",
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    "text": "To Croton hills they lead a long retreat;",
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    "text": "Pale, curbed, exanimate, in dull despair,",
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    "text": "Train the scant relics of the twofold war:",
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    "text": "The sword, the pestilence press hard behind;",
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    "text": "The body both assail, and one beats down the mind.",
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