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    "text": "But of all tales that war’s black annals hold",
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   {
    "text": "The darkest, foulest still remains untold;",
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   {
    "text": "New modes of torture wait the shameful strife,",
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   {
    "text": "And Britain wantons in the waste of life.",
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   {
    "text": "Cold-blooded Cruelty, first fiend of hell,",
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    "text": "Ah think no more with savage hordes to dwell;",
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    "text": "Quit the Caribbean tribes who eat their slain,",
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   {
    "text": "Fly that grim gang, the Inquisitors of Spain,",
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   {
    "text": "Boast not thy deeds in Moloch’s shrines of old,",
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   {
    "text": "Leave Barbary’s pirates to their blood-bought gold,",
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    "text": "Let Holland steal her victims, force them o’er",
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   {
    "text": "To toils and death on Java’s morbid shore;",
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   {
    "text": "Some cloak, some color all these crimes may plead;",
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    "text": "’Tis avarice, passion, blind religion’s deed;",
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    "text": "But Britons here, in this fraternal broil,",
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    "text": "Grave, cool, deliberate in thy service toil.",
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    "text": "Far from the nation’s eye, whose nobler soul",
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    "text": "Their wars would humanize, their pride control,",
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   {
    "text": "They lose the lessons that her laws impart",
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   {
    "text": "And change the British for the brutal heart.",
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    "text": "Fired by no passion, madden’d by no zeal,",
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   {
    "text": "No priest, no Plutus bids them not to feel;",
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    "text": "Unpaid, gratuitous, on torture bent,",
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    "text": "Their sport is death, their pastime to torment;",
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   {
    "text": "All other gods they scorn, but bow the knee,",
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   {
    "text": "And curb, well pleased, O Cruelty, to thee.",
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    "text": "Come then, curst goddess, where thy votaries reign,",
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   {
    "text": "Inhale their incense from the land and main;",
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   {
    "text": "Come to New York, their conquering arms to greet,",
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   {
    "text": "Brood o’er their camp and breathe along their fleet;",
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   {
    "text": "The brother chiefs of Howe’s illustrious name",
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   {
    "text": "Demand thy labors to complete their fame.",
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   {
    "text": "What shrieks of agony thy praises sound!",
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   {
    "text": "What grateless dungeons groan beneath the ground!",
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   {
    "text": "See the black Prison Ship’s expanding womb",
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   {
    "text": "Impested thousands, quick and dead, entomb.",
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   {
    "text": "Barks after barks the captured seamen bear,",
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    "text": "Transboard and crowd thy silent victims there;",
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    "text": "A hundred scows, from all the neighboring shore,",
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    "text": "Spread the dull sail and ply the constant oar,",
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   {
    "text": "Waft wrecks of armies from the well fought field,",
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   {
    "text": "And famisht garrisons who bravely yield;",
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   {
    "text": "They mount the hulk, and, cramm’d within the cave,",
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   {
    "text": "Hail their last house, their living, floating grave.",
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    "text": "She comes, the fiend! her grinning jaws expand,",
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   {
    "text": "Her brazen eyes cast lightning o’er the strand,",
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   {
    "text": "Her wings like thunder-clouds the welkin sweep,",
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    "text": "Brush the tall spires and shade the shuddering deep;",
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   {
    "text": "She gains the deck, displays her wonted store",
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   {
    "text": "Her cords and scourges wet with prisoners’ gore;",
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   {
    "text": "Gripes, pincers, thumb-screws spread beneath her feet,",
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   {
    "text": "Slow poisonous drugs and loads of putrid meat;",
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    "text": "Disease hangs drizzling from her slimy locks,",
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    "text": "And hot contagion issues from her box.",
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    "text": "O’er the closed hatches ere she takes her place,",
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   {
    "text": "She moves the massy planks a little space,",
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   {
    "text": "Opes a small passage to the cries below",
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   {
    "text": "That feast her soul on messages of woe;",
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   {
    "text": "There sits with gaping ear and changeless eye,",
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   {
    "text": "Drinks every groan and treasures every sigh,",
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   {
    "text": "Sustains the faint, their miseries to prolong,",
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   {
    "text": "Revives the dying and unnerves the strong.",
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    "text": "But as the infected mass resign their breath,",
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   {
    "text": "She keeps with joy the register of death.",
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   {
    "text": "As tost through portholes from the encumber’d cave,",
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   {
    "text": "Corpse after corpse fall dashing in the wave;",
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   {
    "text": "Corpse after corpse, for days and months and years,",
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   {
    "text": "The tide bears off, and still its current clears;",
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   {
    "text": "At last, o’erloaded with the putrid gore,",
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   {
    "text": "The slime-clad waters thicken round the shore.",
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   {
    "text": "Green Ocean’s self, that oft his wave renews,",
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   {
    "text": "That drinks whole fleets with all their slaughter’d crews,",
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   {
    "text": "That laves, that purifies the earth and sky,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet ne’er before resign’d his natural dye,",
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   {
    "text": "Here purples, blushes for the race he bore",
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   {
    "text": "To rob and ravage this unconquer’d shore;",
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   {
    "text": "The scaly nations, as they travel by,",
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    "text": "Catch the contagion, sicken, gasp and die.",
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    "text": "Now Hesper turns the Hero’s tearful eye",
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    "text": "To other fields where other standards fly;",
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    "text": "For here constrain’d new warfare to disclose",
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   {
    "text": "And show the feats of more than mortal foes,",
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   {
    "text": "Where interposing with celestial might,",
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   {
    "text": "His own dread labors must decide the fight,",
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   {
    "text": "He bids the scene with pomp unusual rise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To teach Columbus how to read the skies.",
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    "text": "He marks the trace of Howe’s triumphant course",
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    "text": "And wheels o’er Jersey plains his gathering force;",
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    "text": "Where dauntless Washington begirt with foes,",
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   {
    "text": "Still greater rises as the danger grows,",
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    "text": "And wearied troops, o’er kindred warriors slain,",
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   {
    "text": "Attend his march through many a sanguine plain.",
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    "text": "From Hudson’s bank to Trenton’s wintry strand",
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   {
    "text": "He guards in firm retreat his feeble band;",
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    "text": "Britons by thousands on his flanks advance,",
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    "text": "Bend o’er his rear and point the lifted lance.",
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    "text": "Past Delaware’s frozen stream, with scanty force,",
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   {
    "text": "He checks retreat; then turning back his course,",
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    "text": "Remounts the wave and through the mingled roar",
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    "text": "Of ice and storm reseeks the hostile shore,",
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   {
    "text": "Wrapt in the gloom of night. The offended Flood",
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    "text": "Starts from his cave, assumes the indignant god,",
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    "text": "Rears through the parting tide his foamy form",
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    "text": "And with his fiery eyeballs lights the storm.",
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   {
    "text": "He stares around him on the host he heard,",
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   {
    "text": "Clears his choked urn and smooths his icy beard",
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   {
    "text": "And thus: Audacious chief, this troubled wave",
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   {
    "text": "Tempt not; or tempting, here shall gape thy grave.",
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   {
    "text": "Is nothing sacred to thy venturous might?",
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   {
    "text": "The howling storm, the holy truce of night,",
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   {
    "text": "High tossing ice-isles crashing round thy side,",
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   {
    "text": "Insidious rocks that pierce the tumbling tide?",
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   {
    "text": "Fear then this forceful arm, and hear once more,",
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    "text": "Death stands between thee and that shelvy shore.",
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    "text": "The chief beholds the god and notes his cry,",
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    "text": "But onward drives, nor pauses to reply;",
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   {
    "text": "Calls to each bark and spirits every host",
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    "text": "To toil, gain, tempt the interdicted coast.",
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    "text": "The crews, regardless of the doubling roar,",
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    "text": "Breast the strong helm and wrestle with the oar,",
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    "text": "Stem with resurgent prow the struggling spray",
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    "text": "And with phosphoric lanterns shape their way.",
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    "text": "The god perceived his warning words were vain,",
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    "text": "And rose more furious to assert his reign,",
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    "text": "Lasht up a loftier surge and heaved on high",
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    "text": "A ridge of billows that obstruct the sky;",
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    "text": "And, as the accumulated mass he rolls,",
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    "text": "Bares the sharp rocks and lifts the gaping shoals.",
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    "text": "Forward the fearless barges plunge and bound,",
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    "text": "Top the curl’d wave, or grind the flinty ground,",
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    "text": "Careen, whirl, right, and sidelong dasht and tost,",
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    "text": "Now seem to reach and now to lose the coast.",
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    "text": "Still unsubdued the sea-drench’d army toils,",
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    "text": "Each buoyant skiff the flouncing godhead foils;",
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    "text": "He raves and roars, and in delirious woe",
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    "text": "Calls to his aid his ancient hoary foe,",
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    "text": "Almighty Frost; when thus the vanquisht Flood",
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    "text": "Bespeaks in haste the great earth-rending god:",
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    "text": "Father of storms! behold this mortal race",
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    "text": "Confound my force and brave me to my face.",
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    "text": "Not all my waves by all my tempests driven",
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    "text": "Nor black night brooding o’er the starless heaven",
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    "text": "Can check their course; they toss and plunge amain,",
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    "text": "And lo my guardian rocks project their points in vain.",
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    "text": "Come to my help, and with thy stiffening breath",
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    "text": "Clog their strain’d helms, distend their limbs in death.",
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   {
    "text": "Though ancient enmity our realms divide,",
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   {
    "text": "And oft thy chains arrest my laboring tide,",
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   {
    "text": "Let strong necessity our cause combine,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy own disgrace anticipate in mine;",
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   {
    "text": "Even now their oars thy sleet in vain congeals,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy crumbling ice-cakes crash beneath their keels;",
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   {
    "text": "Their impious arms already cope with ours,",
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    "text": "And mortal man defies immortal Powers.",
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    "text": "Roused at the call, the monarch mounts the storm;",
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    "text": "In muriat flakes he robes his nitrous form,",
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    "text": "Glares through the compound, all its blast inhales,",
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    "text": "And seas turn crystal where he breathes his gales.",
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   {
    "text": "He comes careering o’er his bleak domain,",
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   {
    "text": "But comes untended by his usual train;",
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   {
    "text": "Hail, sleet and snow-rack far behind him fly,",
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   {
    "text": "Too weak to wade through this petrific sky,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose air consolidates and cuts and stings,",
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   {
    "text": "And shakes hoar tinsel from its flickering wings.",
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   {
    "text": "Earth heaves and cracks beneath the alighting god;",
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    "text": "He gains the pass, bestrides the roaring flood,",
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    "text": "Shoots from his nostrils one wide withering sheet",
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    "text": "Of treasured meteors on the struggling fleet;",
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    "text": "The waves conglaciate instant, fix in air,",
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    "text": "Stand like a ridge of rocks, and shiver there.",
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    "text": "The barks confounded in their headlong surge",
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    "text": "Or wedged in crystal cease their oars to urge;",
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    "text": "Some with prone prow, as plunging down the deep,",
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   {
    "text": "And some remounting o’er the slippery steep",
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    "text": "Seem laboring still, but moveless, lifeless all;",
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    "text": "And the chill’d army here awaits its fall.",
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    "text": "But Hesper, guardian of Hesperia’s right,",
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    "text": "From his far heaven looks through the rayless night,",
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    "text": "And stung to vengeance at the unequal strife,",
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    "text": "To save her host, in jeopardy of life,",
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    "text": "Starts from his throne, ascends his flamy car",
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    "text": "And turns tremendous to the field of war.",
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    "text": "His wheels, resurging from the depth of even,",
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    "text": "Roll back the night, streak wide the startled heaven,",
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    "text": "Regain their easting with reverted gyres",
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   {
    "text": "And stud their path with scintillating fires.",
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    "text": "He cleaves the clouds; and, swift as beams of day",
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    "text": "O’er California sweeps his splendid way;",
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    "text": "Missouri’s mountains at his passage nod",
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    "text": "And now sad Delaware feels the present god",
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    "text": "And trembles at his tread. For here to fight",
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    "text": "Rush two dread Powers of such unmeasured might,",
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    "text": "As threats to annihilate his doubtful reign,",
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    "text": "Convulse the heaven and mingle earth and main.",
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    "text": "Frost views his brilliant foe with scornful eye",
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    "text": "And whirls a tenfold tempest through the sky;",
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   {
    "text": "Where each fine atom of the immense of air,",
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    "text": "Steel’d, pointed, barb’d for unexampled war,",
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    "text": "Sings o’er the shuddering ground; when thus he broke",
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   {
    "text": "Contemptuous silence, and to Hesper spoke:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou comest in time to share their last disgrace,",
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   {
    "text": "To change to crystal with thy rebel race,",
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    "text": "Stretch thy huge corse o’er Delaware’s bank afar",
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    "text": "And learn the force of elemental war.",
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    "text": "Or if undying life thy lamp inspire,",
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   {
    "text": "Take that one blast and to thy sky retire;",
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   {
    "text": "There, roll’d eternal round the heavens, proclaim",
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    "text": "Thy own disaster and my deathless fame.",
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    "text": "I come, said Hesper, not to insult the brave,",
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   {
    "text": "But break thy sceptre and let loose my wave,",
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   {
    "text": "Teach the proud stream more peaceful tides to roll,",
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   {
    "text": "And send thee howling to thy stormy pole;",
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   {
    "text": "That drear dominion shall thy rage confine;",
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    "text": "This land, these waters and those troops are mine.",
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    "text": "He added not; and now the sable storm,",
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    "text": "Pierced by strong splendor, burst before his form;",
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   {
    "text": "His visage stern an awful lustre shed,",
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   {
    "text": "His pearly planet play’d around his head.",
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    "text": "He seized a lofty pine, whose roots of yore",
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    "text": "Struck deep in earth to guard the sandy shore",
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    "text": "From hostile ravage of the mining tide,",
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    "text": "And why sweet Minstrel, from the harp of fame",
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    "text": "Frazer in quest of glory seeks the field;⁠—",
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    "text": "False glare of glory, what hast thou to yield?",
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    "text": "How long, deluding phantom, wilt thou blind,",
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    "text": "And when shall solid glory pure and bright",
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    "text": "Alone inspire us and our deeds requite?",
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    "text": "Unhappy Frazer! little hast thou weigh’d",
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    "text": "The crirneful cause thy valor comes to aid.",
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    "text": "Far from thy native land, thy sire, thy wife,",
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    "text": "Love’s lisping race that cling about thy life,",
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    "text": "Thy soul beats high, thy thoughts expanding roam",
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    "text": "On battles past and laurels yet to come:",
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    "text": "Alas, what laurels? where the lasting gain?",
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    "text": "A pompous funeral on a desert plain!",
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    "text": "The cannon’s roar, the muffled drums proclaim,",
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    "text": "In one short blast, thy momentary fame;",
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    "text": "And some war minister per-hazard reads",
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    "text": "In what far field the tool of placemen bleeds.",
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    "text": "Brave Heartly strode in youth’s o’erweening pride;",
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    "text": "Housed in the camp he left his blooming bride,",
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    "text": "The sweet Lucinda; whom her sire from far,",
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    "text": "On steeds high bounding o’er the waste of war,",
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    "text": "Had guided through the lines and hither led,",
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    "text": "That fateful morn, the plighted chief to wed.",
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    "text": "That routed rebels dared the fight no more;",
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    "text": "And came to mingle, as the tumult ceased,",
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    "text": "They reacht his tent; when now with loud alarms",
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    "text": "The morn burst forth and roused the camp to arms;",
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    "text": "Bright honor call’d and bright Lucinda prest:",
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    "text": "And wilt thou leave me for that clangorous call?",
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    "text": "Traced I these deserts but to see thee fall?",
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    "text": "I know thy valorous heart, thy zeal that speeds",
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    "text": "My father said blest Hymen here should join",
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    "text": "With sacred Love to make Lucinda thine;",
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    "text": "The dark dead union of the eternal tomb.",
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    "text": "On yonder plain, soon sheeted o’er with blood,",
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    "text": "Our nuptial couch shall prove a crimson clod;",
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    "text": "For there this night thy livid corse must lie,",
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    "text": "I’ll seek it there, and on that bosom die.",
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    "text": "Yet go; ’tis duty calls; but o’er thy head",
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    "text": "These eyes may trace thee toiling in the war.",
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    "text": "Bound with the mystic knot, the knot of love;",
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    "text": "He parted silent, but in silent prayer,",
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    "text": "Wheel’d, skirmisht, halted, practised all their wiles;",
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    "text": "Now roll like winged storms the solid lines,",
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    "text": "The clarion thunders and the battle joins;",
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    "text": "His hosted swains bestrew the field with dead,",
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    "text": "One deed shall tell what fame great Albion draws",
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    "text": "Lucinda’s fate; the tale, ye nations, hear;",
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    "text": "Long from the rampart, through the imbattled field,",
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    "text": "Swift through the wild wood paths phrenetic springs⁠—",
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    "text": "Lucind! Lucinda! through the wild wood rings.",
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    "text": "Poor human nature, must thy shame be told?",
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    "text": "Where then that proud preeminence of birth,",
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    "text": "Thy moral sense? the brightest boast of earth.",
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    "text": "Had but the tiger changed his heart for thine,",
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    "text": "Thy tear had gusht, thy hand relieved her pain",
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    "text": "Does all this eloquence suspend the knife?",
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    "text": "Does no superior bribe contest her life?",
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    "text": "There does: the scalps by British gold are paid;",
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    "text": "A long-hair’d scalp adorns that heavenly head;",
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    "text": "They seize her hands and through her face divine",
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    "text": "With all the speed his wearied limbs could yield,",
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    "text": "Whirl’d his keen blade and stretcht upon the field",
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    "text": "The yelling fiends; who there disputing stood",
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    "text": "Her gory scalp, their horrid prize of blood.",
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    "text": "And past, in starts of sense, the dreadful day.",
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    "text": "Are these thy trophies, Carleton! these the swords",
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    "text": "Swell’d high their rage, and led the charge anew;",
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   {
    "text": "Again the batteries roar, the lightnings play,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Again they fall, again they roll away;",
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   {
    "text": "For now Columbia with rebounding might",
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   {
    "text": "Foil’d quick their columns, but confined their flight.",
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   {
    "text": "Her wings, like fierce tornados, gyring ran,",
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   {
    "text": "Crusht their wide flanks and gain’d their flying van;",
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   {
    "text": "Here Arnold charged; the hero storm’d and pour’d",
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   {
    "text": "A thousand thunders where he turn’d his sword.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No pause, no parley; onward far he fray’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Dispersed whole squadrons every bound he made,",
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   {
    "text": "Broke through their rampart, seized their camp and stores",
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   {
    "text": "And pluckt the standard from their broken towers.",
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    "text": "Aghast, confounded in the midway field,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They drop their arms; the banded nations yield.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When sad Burgoyne, in one disastrous day,",
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   {
    "text": "Sees future crowns and former wreaths decay,",
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   {
    "text": "His banners furl’d, his long battalions wheel’d",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To pile their muskets on the battle field;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While two pacific armies shade one plain,",
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   {
    "text": "The mighty victors and the captive train.",
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