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 "title": "Book VIII",
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    "text": "Hail, holy Peace, from thy sublime abode",
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   {
    "text": "Mid circling saints that grace the throne of God.",
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   {
    "text": "Before his arm around our embryon earth,",
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   {
    "text": "Stretcht the dim void and gave to nature birth,",
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   {
    "text": "Ere morning stars his glowing chambers hung,",
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   {
    "text": "Or songs of gladness woke an angel’s tongue,",
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   {
    "text": "Veil’d in the splendors of his beamful mind,",
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   {
    "text": "In blest repose thy placid form reclined,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lived in his life, his inward sapience caught,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And traced and toned his universe of thought.",
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   {
    "text": "Borne through the expanse with his creating voice",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy presence bade the unfolding worlds rejoice,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Led forth the systems on their bright career,",
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   {
    "text": "Shaped all their curves and fashion’d every sphere,",
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   {
    "text": "Spaced out their suns, and round each radiant goal,",
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   {
    "text": "Orb over orb, compell’d their train to roll,",
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   {
    "text": "Bade heaven’s own harmony their force combine,",
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   {
    "text": "Taught all their host symphonious strains to join,",
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   {
    "text": "Gave to seraphic harps their sounding lays,",
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   {
    "text": "Their joys to angels and to men their praise.",
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    "text": "From scenes of blood, these verdant shores that stain,",
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    "text": "From numerous friends in recent battle slain,",
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    "text": "From blazing towns that scorch the purple sky,",
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   {
    "text": "From houseless hordes, their smoking walls that fly,",
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   {
    "text": "From the black prison ships, those groaning graves,",
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   {
    "text": "From warring fleets that vex the gory waves,",
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   {
    "text": "From a storm’d world, long taught thy flight to mourn,",
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   {
    "text": "I rise, delightful Peace, and greet thy glad return.",
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   {
    "text": "For now the untuneful trump shall grate no more;",
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   {
    "text": "Ye silver streams, no longer swell with gore,",
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   {
    "text": "Bear from your war-beat banks the guilty stain",
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   {
    "text": "With yon retiring navies to the main.",
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   {
    "text": "While other views unfolding on my eyes",
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   {
    "text": "And happier themes bid bolder numbers rise;",
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   {
    "text": "Bring, bounteous Peace, in thy celestial throng,",
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   {
    "text": "Life to my soul and rapture to my song;",
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   {
    "text": "Give me to trace, with pure unclouded ray,",
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   {
    "text": "The arts and virtues that attend thy sway,",
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   {
    "text": "To see thy blissful charms, that here descend,",
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   {
    "text": "Through distant realms and endless years extend.",
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   {
    "text": "Too long the groans of death and battle’s bray",
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   {
    "text": "Have rung discordant through my turgid lay:",
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   {
    "text": "The drum’s rude clang, the war wolfs hideous howl",
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   {
    "text": "Convulsed my nerves and agonized my soul,",
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   {
    "text": "Untuned the harp for all but misery’s pains",
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   {
    "text": "And chased the Muse from corse-encumber’d plains.",
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   {
    "text": "Let memory’s balm its pious fragrance shed",
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   {
    "text": "On heroes’ wounds and patriot warriors dead;",
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   {
    "text": "Accept, departed Shades, these grateful sighs,",
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   {
    "text": "Your fond attendants through your homeward skies.",
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   {
    "text": "And thou, my earliest friend, my Brother dear,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy fall untimely still renews my tear.",
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   {
    "text": "In youthful sports, in toils, in taste allied,",
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   {
    "text": "My kind companion and my faithful guide,",
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   {
    "text": "When death’s dread summons, from our infant eyes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Had call’d our last loved parent to the skies.",
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   {
    "text": "Though young in arms and still obscure thy name,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy bosom panted for the deeds of fame;",
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   {
    "text": "Beneath Montgomery’s eye, when by thy steel",
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   {
    "text": "In northern wilds the frequent savage fell.",
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   {
    "text": "Fired by his voice and foremost at his call",
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   {
    "text": "To mount the breach or scale the flamy wall,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy daring hand had many a laurel gain’d,",
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   {
    "text": "If years had ripen’d what thy fancy feign’d.",
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   {
    "text": "Lamented Youth! when thy great leader bled,",
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   {
    "text": "Through the same wound thy parting spirit fled,",
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   {
    "text": "Join’d the long train, the self-devoted band,",
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   {
    "text": "The gods, the saviors of their native land.",
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   {
    "text": "On fame’s high pinnacle their names shall shine,",
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   {
    "text": "Unending ages greet the group divine,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose holy hands our banners first unfurl’d",
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   {
    "text": "And conquer’d freedom for the grateful world.",
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   {
    "text": "And you, their peers, whose steel avenged their blood,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose breasts with theirs our sacred rampart stood,",
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   {
    "text": "Illustrious relics of a thousand fields!",
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   {
    "text": "To you at last the foe reluctant yields.",
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   {
    "text": "But though the Muse, too prodigal of praise,",
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   {
    "text": "Dares with the dead your living worth to raise,",
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   {
    "text": "Think not, my friends, the patriot’s task is done,",
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   {
    "text": "Or Freedom safe, because the battle’s won.",
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   {
    "text": "Unnumber’d foes, far different arms that wield,",
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   {
    "text": "Wait the weak moment when she quits her shield,",
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   {
    "text": "To plunge in her bold breast the insidious dart",
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   {
    "text": "Or pour keen poison round her thoughtless heart.",
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   {
    "text": "Perhaps they’ll strive her votaries to divide,",
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   {
    "text": "From their own veins to draw the vital tide;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Perhaps, by cooler calculation shown,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Create materials to construct a throne,",
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   {
    "text": "Dazzle her guardians with the glare of state,",
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   {
    "text": "Corrupt with power, with borrowed pomp inflate,",
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   {
    "text": "Bid through the land the soft infection creep,",
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   {
    "text": "Whelm all her sons in one lethargic sleep,",
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   {
    "text": "Crush her vast empire in its brilliant birth",
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   {
    "text": "And chase the goddess from the ravaged earth.",
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    "text": "The dragon thus, that watcht the Colchian fleece,",
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   {
    "text": "Foil’d the fierce warriors of wide-plundering Greece;",
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    "text": "Warriors of matchless might and wondrous birth,",
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   {
    "text": "Jove’s sceptred sons and demigods of earth.",
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   {
    "text": "High on the sacred tree, the glittering prize",
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   {
    "text": "Hangs o’er its guard and tires the warriors’ eyes;",
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   {
    "text": "First their hurl’d spears his spiral folds assail,",
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   {
    "text": "Their spears fall pointless from his flaky mail;",
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   {
    "text": "Onward with dauntless swords they plunge amain;",
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   {
    "text": "He shuns their blows, recoils his twisting train,",
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   {
    "text": "Darts forth his forky tongue, heaves high in air",
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   {
    "text": "His fiery crest and sheds a hideous glare,",
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   {
    "text": "Champs, churns his poisonous juice, and hissing loud",
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   {
    "text": "Spouts thick the stifling tempest o’er the crowd;",
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   {
    "text": "Then, with one sweep of convoluted train,",
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   {
    "text": "Rolls back all Greece and besoms wide the plain",
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   {
    "text": "O’erturns the sons of gods, dispersing far",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The pirate horde, and closes quick the war.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From his red jaws tremendous triumph roars,",
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   {
    "text": "Dark Euxine trembles to its distant shores,",
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   {
    "text": "Proud Jason starts confounded in his might,",
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   {
    "text": "Leads back his peers and dares no more the fight.",
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   {
    "text": "But the sly Priestess brings her opiate spell,",
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   {
    "text": "Soft charms that hush the triple hound of hell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bids Orpheus tune his all-enchanting lyre",
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   {
    "text": "And join to calm the guardian’s sleepless ire.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Soon from the tepid ground blue vapors rise,",
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   {
    "text": "And sounds melodious move along the skies;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A settling tremor through his folds extends,",
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   {
    "text": "His crest contracts, his rainbow heck unbends,",
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   {
    "text": "O’er all his hundred hoops the languor crawls,",
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   {
    "text": "Each curve develops, every volute falls,",
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   {
    "text": "His broad back flattens as he spreads the plain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sleep consigns him to his lifeless reign.",
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   {
    "text": "Flusht at the sight the pirates seize the spoil,",
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   {
    "text": "And ravaged Colchis rues the insidious toil.",
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    "text": "Yes! fellow freemen, sons of high renown,",
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   {
    "text": "Chant your loud peans, weave your civic crown;",
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   {
    "text": "But know, the goddess you’ve so long adored,",
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   {
    "text": "Though now she scabbards your avenging sword,",
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   {
    "text": "Calls you to vigilance, to manlier cares,",
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   {
    "text": "To prove in peace the men she proved in wars:",
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   {
    "text": "Superior task! severer test of soul!",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis here bold virtue plays her noblest role",
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   {
    "text": "And merits most of praise. The warrior’s name,",
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   {
    "text": "Though peal’d and chimed on all the tongues of fame,",
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   {
    "text": "Sounds less harmonious to the grateful mind",
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   {
    "text": "Than his who fashions and improves mankind.",
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    "text": "And what high meed your new vocation waits!",
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   {
    "text": "Freedom, parturient with a hundred states,",
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   {
    "text": "Confides them to your hand; the nascent prize",
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   {
    "text": "Claims all your care, your soundest wisdom tries.",
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   {
    "text": "Ah nurture, temper, train your infant charge,",
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   {
    "text": "Its force develop and its life enlarge,",
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   {
    "text": "Unfold each day some adolescent grace,",
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   {
    "text": "Some right recognise or some duty trace;",
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   {
    "text": "Mold a fair model for the realms of earth,",
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   {
    "text": "Call moral nature to a second birth,",
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   {
    "text": "Reach, renovate the world’s great social plan",
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   {
    "text": "And here commence the sober sense of man.",
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   {
    "text": "For lo in other climes and elder states",
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   {
    "text": "What strange inversion all his works awaits!",
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   {
    "text": "From age to age, on every peopled shore,",
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   {
    "text": "Stalks the fell Demon of despotic power,",
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   {
    "text": "Sweeps in his march the mounds of art away,",
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   {
    "text": "Blots with his breath the trembling disk of day,",
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   {
    "text": "Treads down whole nations every stride he takes",
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   {
    "text": "And wraps their labors in his fiery flakes.",
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   {
    "text": "As Anarch erst around his regions hurl’d",
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   {
    "text": "The wrecks, long crusht of time’s anterior world;",
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   {
    "text": "While nature mourn’d, in wild confusion tost,",
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   {
    "text": "Her suns extinguisht and her systems lost,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Light, life and instinct shared the dreary trance,",
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   {
    "text": "And gravitation fled the field of chance;",
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   {
    "text": "No laws remain’d of matter, motion, space;",
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   {
    "text": "Time lost his count, the universe his place;",
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   {
    "text": "Till Order came, in her cerulean robes",
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   {
    "text": "And launcht and rein’d the renovated globes,",
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   {
    "text": "Stockt with harmonious worlds the vast Inane,",
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   {
    "text": "Archt her new heaven and fixt her boundless reign:",
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   {
    "text": "So kings convulse the moral frame, the base",
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   {
    "text": "Of all the codes that can accord the race;",
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   {
    "text": "And so from their broad grasp, their deadly ban,",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis yours to snatch this earth, to raise regenerate man.",
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   {
    "text": "My friends, I love your fame; I joy to raise",
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   {
    "text": "The high toned anthem of my country’s praise;",
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   {
    "text": "To sing her victories, virtues, wisdom, weal,",
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   {
    "text": "Boast with loud voice the patriot pride I feel;",
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   {
    "text": "Warm wild I sing; and, to her failings blind,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mislead myself, perhaps mislead mankind.",
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   {
    "text": "Land that I love! is this the whole we owe?",
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   {
    "text": "Thy pride to pamper, thy fair face to show;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dwells there no blemish where such glories shine?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And lurks no spot in that bright sun of thine?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hark! a dread voice, with heaven-astounding strain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Swells like a thousand thunders o’er the main,",
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   {
    "text": "Rolls and reverberates around thy hills,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And Hesper’s heart with pangs paternal fills.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou hearst him not; ’tis Atlas, throned sublime,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Great brother guardian of old Afric’s clime;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "High o’er his coast he rears his frowning form,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O’erlooks and calms his sky-borne fields of storm,",
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   {
    "text": "Flings off the clouds that round his shoulders hung",
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   {
    "text": "And breaks from clogs of ice his trembling tongue;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While far through space with rage and grief he glares,",
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   {
    "text": "Heaves his hoar head and shakes the heaven he bears:",
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   {
    "text": "—Son of my sire! O latest brightest birth",
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   {
    "text": "That sprang from his fair spouse, prolific earth!",
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   {
    "text": "Great Hesper, say what sordid ceaseless hate",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Impels thee thus to mar my elder state?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Our sire assign’d thee thy more glorious reign,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Secured and bounded by our laboring main;",
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   {
    "text": "That main (though still my birthright name it bear)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy sails o’ershadow, thy brave children share;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I grant it thus; while air surrounds the ball,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let breezes blow, let oceans roll for all.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But thy proud sons, a strange ungenerous race,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Enslave my tribes, and each fair world disgrace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Provoke wide vengeance on their lawless land,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The bolt ill placed in thy forbearing hand.⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Enslave my tribes! then boast their cantons free,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Preach faith and justice, bend the sainted knee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Invite all men their liberty to share,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Seek public peace, defy the assaults of war,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Plant, reap, consume, enjoy their fearless toil,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Tame their wild floods to fatten still their soil,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Enrich all nations with their nurturing store",
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   {
    "text": "And rake with venturous fluke each wondering shore.⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Enslave my tribes! what, half mankind imban,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then read, expound, enforce the rights of man!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Prove plain and clear how nature’s hand of old",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Cast all men equal in her human mold!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their fibres, feelings, reasoning powers the same,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like wants await them, like desires inflame.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Through former times with learned book they tread,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Revise past ages and rejudge the dead,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Write, speak, avenge, for ancient sufferings feel,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Impale each tyrant on their pens of steel,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Declare how freemen can a world create,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And slaves and masters ruin every state.⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Enslave my tribes! and think, with dumb disdain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To scape this arm and prove my vengeance vain!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But look! methinks beneath my foot I ken",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A few chain’d things that seem no longer men;",
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   {
    "text": "Thy sons perchance! whom Barbary’s coast can tell",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sweets of that loved scourge they wield so well.",
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   {
    "text": "Link’d in a line, beneath the driver’s goad,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "See how they stagger with their lifted load;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The shoulder’d rock, just wrencht from off my hill",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And wet with drops their straining orbs distil,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Galls, grinds them sore, along the rarnpart led,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the chain clanking counts the steps they tread.",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "By night close bolted in the bagnio’s gloom,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Think how they ponder on their dreadful doom,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Recall the tender sire, the weeping bride,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The home, far sunder’d by a waste of tide,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Brood all the ties that once endear’d them there,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But now, strung stronger, edge their keen despair.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Till here a fouler fiend arrests their pace:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Plague, with his burning breath and bloated face,",
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   {
    "text": "With saffron eyes that through the dungeon shine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the black tumors bursting from the groin,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Stalks o’er the slave; who, cowering on the sod,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shrinks from the Demon and invokes his God,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sucks hot contagion with his quivering breath",
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   {
    "text": "And rackt with rending torture sinks in death.",
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    "text": "Nor shall these pangs atone the nation’s crime;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far heavier vengeance, in the march of time,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Attends them still; if still they dare debase",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And hold inthrall’d the millions of my race;",
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   {
    "text": "A vengeance that shall shake the world’s deep frame,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That heaven abhors and hell might shrink to name.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nature, long outraged, delves the crusted sphere",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And molds the mining mischief dark and drear;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Europa too the penal shock shall find,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The rude soul-selling monsters of mankind.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Where Alps and Andes at their bases meet,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In earth’s mid caves to lock their granite feet,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Heave their broad spines, expand each breathing lobe",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And with their massy members rib the globe,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Her cauldron’d floods of fire their blast prepare;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her wallowing womb of subterranean war",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Waits but the fissure that my wave shall find,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To force the foldings of the rocky rind,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Crash your curst continent, and whirl on high",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The vast avulsion vaulting through the sky,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fling far the bursting fragments, scattering wide",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rocks, mountains, nations o’er the swallowing tide.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Plunging and surging with alternate sweep,",
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   {
    "text": "They storm the day-vault and lay bare the deep,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Toss, tumble, plow their place, then slow subside,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And swell each ocean as their bulk they hide;",
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   {
    "text": "Two oceans dasht in one! that climbs and roars,",
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   {
    "text": "And seeks in vain the exterminated shores,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The deep drencht hemisphere. Far sunk from day,",
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   {
    "text": "It crumbles, rolls, it churns the settling sea,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Turns up each prominence, heaves every side,",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "To pierce once more the landless length of tide;",
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   {
    "text": "Till some poized Pambamarca looms at last",
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   {
    "text": "A dim lone island in the watery waste,",
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   {
    "text": "Mourns all his minor mountains wreckt and hurl’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Stands the sad relic of a ruin’d world,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Attests the wrath our mother kept in store",
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   {
    "text": "And rues her judgments on the race she bore.",
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   {
    "text": "No saving Ark around him rides the main,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor Dove weak-wing’d her footing finds again;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His own bald eagle skims alone the sky,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Darts from all points of heaven her searching eye,",
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   {
    "text": "Kens through the gloom her ancient rock of rest",
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   {
    "text": "And finds her cavern’d crag, her solitary nest.",
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    "text": "Thus toned the Titan his tremendous knell",
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   {
    "text": "And lasht his ocean to a loftier swell;",
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   {
    "text": "Earth groans responsive and with laboring woes",
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   {
    "text": "Leans o’er the surge and stills the storm he throws.",
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   {
    "text": "Fathers and friends, I know the boding fears",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of angry genii and of rending spheres",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Assail not souls like yours; whom science bright",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Through shadowy nature leads with surer light;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For whom she strips the heavens of love and hate,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Strikes from Jove’s hand the brandisht bolt of fate,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Gives each effect its own indubious cause,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Divides her moral from her physic laws,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Shows where the virtues find their nurturing food,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And men their motives to be just and good.",
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   {
    "text": "You scorn the Titan’s threat; nor shall I strain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The powers of pathos in a task so vain",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As Afric’s wrongs to sing; for what avails",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To harp for you these known familiar tales;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To tongue mute misery, and re-rack the soul",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With crimes oft copied from that bloody scroll",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where Slavery pens her woes? though ’tis but there",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "We learn the weight that mortal life can bear.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The tale might startle still the accustom’d ear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Still shake the nerve that pumps the pearly tear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Melt every heart and through the nation gain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Full many a voice to break the barbarous chain.",
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   {
    "text": "But why to sympathy for guidance fly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(Her aids uncertain and of scant supply)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When your own self-excited sense affords",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A guide more sure, and every sense accords?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where strong self-interest join’d with duty lies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where doing right demands no sacrifice,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where profit, pleasure, life-expanding fame",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "League their allurements to support the claim,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis safest there the impleaded cause to trust;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Men well instructed will be always just.",
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    "text": "From slavery then your rising realms to save,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Regard the master, notice not the slave;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Consult alone for freemen, and bestow",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your best, your only cares to keep them so.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Tyrants are never free; and, small and great,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All masters must be tyrants soon or late;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So nature works; and oft the lordling knave",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Turns out at once a tyrant and a slave,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Struts, cringes, bullies, begs, as courtiers must,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Makes one a god, another treads in dust,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fears all alike, and filches whom he can,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But knows no equal, finds no friend in man.",
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    "text": "Ah, would you not be slaves, with lords and kings,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then be not masters; there the danger springs.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The whole crude system that torments this earth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of rank, privation, privilege of birth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "False honor, fraud, corruption, civil jars,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The rage of conquest and the curse of wars,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Pandora’s total shower, all ills combined",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That erst o’erwhelm’d and still distress mankind,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Boxt up secure in your deliberate hand,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wait your behest, to fix or fly this land.",
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   {
    "text": "Equality of Right is nature’s plan;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And following nature is the march of man.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whene’er he deviates in the least degree,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When, free himself, he would be more than free,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The baseless column, rear’d to bear his bust,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Falls as he mounts and whelms him in the dust.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "See Rome’s rude sires, with autocratic gait,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Tread down their tyrant and erect their state;",
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   {
    "text": "Their state secured, they deem it wise and brave",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That every freeman should command a slave,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And flusht with franchise of his camp and town,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rove through the world and hunt the nations down;",
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   {
    "text": "Master and man the same vile spirit gains,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rome chains the world, and wears herself the chains.",
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   {
    "text": "Mark modern Europe with her feudal codes,",
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   {
    "text": "Serfs, villains, vassals, nobles, kings and gods,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All slaves of different grades, corrupt and curst",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With high and low, for senseless rank athirst,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wage endless wars; not fighting to be free,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But cujum pecus, whose base herd they’ll be.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Too much of Europe, here transplanted o’er,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nursed feudal feelings on your tented shore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Brought sable serfs from Afric, call’d it gain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And urged your sires to forge the fatal chain.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But now, the tents o’erturn’d, the war dogs fled,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now fearless Freedom rears at last her head",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Matcht with celestial Peace⁠—my friends, beware",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To shade the splendors of so bright a pair;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Complete their triumph, fix their firm abode,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Purge all privations from your liberal code,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Restore their souls to men, give earth repose,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And save your sons from slavery, wars and woes.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Based on its rock of Right your empire lies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On walls of wisdom let the fabric rise;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Preserve your principles, their force unfold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let nations prove them and let kings behold.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Equality, your first firm-grounded stand;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then free election; then your federal band;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This holy Triad should forever shine",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The great compendium of all rights divine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Creed of all schools, whence youths by millions draw",
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   {
    "text": "Their themes of right, their decalogues of law;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till men shall wonder (in these codes inured)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How wars were made, how tyrants were endured.",
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   {
    "text": "Then shall your works of art superior rise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your fruits perfume a larger length of skies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Canals careering climb your sunbright hills,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Vein the green slopes and strow their nurturing rills,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Through tunnel’d heights and sundering ridges glide,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Rob the rich west of half Kenhawa’s tide,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Mix your wide climates, all their stores confound,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And plant new ports in every midland mound.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your lawless Mississippi, now who slimes",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And drowns and desolates his waste of climes,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Ribb’d with your dikes, his torrent shall restrain",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And ask your leave to travel to the main;",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "Won from his wave while rising cantons smile,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rear their glad nations and reward their toil.",
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   {
    "text": "Thus Nile’s proud flood to human hands of yore",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Raised and resign’d his tide-created shore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Call’d from his Ethiop hills their hardy swains",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And waved their harvests o’er his newborn plains;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Earth’s richest realm from his tamed current sprung;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "There nascent science toned her infant tongue,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Taught the young arts their tender force to try,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To state the seasons and unfold the sky;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till o’er the world extended and refined,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They rule the destinies of humankind.",
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   {
    "text": "Now had Columbus well enjoy’d the sight",
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   {
    "text": "Of armies vanquisht and of fleets in flight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From all Hesperia’s heaven the darkness flown,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And colon crowds to sovereign sages grown.",
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   {
    "text": "To cast new glories o’er the changing clime,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The guardian Power reversed the flight of time,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Roll’d back the years that led their course before,",
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   {
    "text": "Stretcht out immense the wild uncultured shore;",
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   {
    "text": "Then shifts the total scene, and rears to view",
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   {
    "text": "Arts and the men that useful arts pursue.",
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   {
    "text": "As o’er the canvas when the painter’s mind",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Glows with a future landscape well design’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While Panorama’s wondrous aid he calls",
    "indent": 0
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   {
    "text": "To crowd whole realms within his circling walls,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lakes, fields and forests, ports and navies rise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A new creation to his kindling eyes;",
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   {
    "text": "He smiles o’er all; and in delightful strife",
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   {
    "text": "The pencil moves and calls the whole to life.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "So while Columbia’s patriarch stood sublime",
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   {
    "text": "And saw rude nature clothe the trackless clime;",
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   {
    "text": "The green banks heave, the winding currents pour,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The bays and harbors cleave the yielding shore,",
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   {
    "text": "The champaigns spread, the solemn groves arise",
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   {
    "text": "And the rough mountains lengthen round the skies;",
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   {
    "text": "Through all their bounds he traced with skilful ken",
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   {
    "text": "The unform’d seats and future walks of men;",
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   {
    "text": "Markt where the field should bloom, the pennon play,",
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    "text": "When, sudden waked by Hesper’s waving hand,",
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    "text": "Far wealthier stores these genial tides display,",
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    "text": "Penn’s student halls his youths with gladness greet,",
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    "text": "On James’s bank Virginian Muses meet,",
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    "text": "Manhattan’s mart collegiate domes command,",
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    "text": "Bright o’er its realm reflecting solar fires,",
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    "text": "Fixt in small spheres, with safer beams to shine,",
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    "text": "They reach the useful and refuse the fine,",
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    "text": "Found, on its proper base, the social plan,",
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    "text": "The broad plain truths, the common sense of man,",
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    "text": "His obvious wants, his mutual aids discern,",
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    "text": "His rights familiarize, his duties learn,",
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    "text": "Feel moral fitness all its force dilate,",
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    "text": "Embrace the village and comprise the state.",
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    "text": "Each rustic here who turns the furrow’d soil,",
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    "text": "The maid, the youth that ply mechanic toil,",
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    "text": "In equal rights, in useful arts inured,",
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    "text": "Know their just claims and see their claims secured;",
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    "text": "They watch their delegates, each law revise,",
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    "text": "Obey, but scrutinize; and let the test",
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    "text": "Of sage experience prove and fix the best.",
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    "text": "Here, fired by virtue’s animating flame,",
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    "text": "The preacher’s task persuasive sages claim,",
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    "text": "To mold religion to the moral mind,",
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    "text": "In bands of peace to harmonize mankind,",
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    "text": "To life, to light, to promised joys above",
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    "text": "The soften’d soul with ardent hope to move.",
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    "text": "No dark intolerance blinds the zealous throng,",
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    "text": "No arm of power attendant on their tongue;",
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    "text": "Vext Inquisition with her flaming brand",
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    "text": "Shuns their mild march nor dares approach the land.",
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    "text": "Though different creeds their priestly robes denote,",
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    "text": "Their orders various and their rites remote,",
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    "text": "Yet one their voice, their labors all combined,",
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    "text": "Lights of the world and friends of humankind.",
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    "text": "So the bright galaxy o’er heaven displays",
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    "text": "Of various stars the same unbounded blaze;",
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    "text": "Where great and small their mingling rays unite,",
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    "text": "And earth and skies exchange the friendly light.",
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    "text": "And lo, my son, that other sapient band,",
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    "text": "The torch of science flaming in their hand!",
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    "text": "Through nature’s range their searching souls aspire",
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    "text": "Or wake to life the canvas and the lyre.",
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    "text": "Fixt in sublimest thought, behold them rise",
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    "text": "World after world unfolding to their eyes,",
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    "text": "Lead, light, allure them through the total plan,",
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    "text": "And give new guidance to the paths of man.",
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    "text": "Yon meteor-mantled hill see Franklin tread,",
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    "text": "Heaven’s awful thunders tolling o’er his head,",
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    "text": "See the descending streams around him burn,",
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    "text": "Glance on his rod and with his finger turn;",
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    "text": "The guided blast, and holds the imprison’d fire.",
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    "text": "No more, when doubling storms the vault o’erspread,",
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    "text": "The livid glare shall strike thy race with dread,",
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    "text": "Nor towers nor temples shuddering with the sound",
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    "text": "Sink in the flames and shake the sheeted ground.",
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    "text": "His well tried wires, that every tempest wait,",
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    "text": "With pointed gold o’ertop the trembling spire",
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    "text": "Wherever lightning shines or thunder rears its voice.",
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    "text": "And see sage Rittenhouse with ardent eye",
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    "text": "Lift the long tube and pierce the starry sky;",
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    "text": "Clear in his view the circling planets roll,",
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    "text": "And suns and satellites their course control.",
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    "text": "He marks what laws the widest wanderers bind,",
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    "text": "With all the spheres that cleave the vast of space.",
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    "text": "He calls to life each patriot, chief or sage,",
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    "text": "And gain fresh lustre from his copious hand;",
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    "text": "Fair in his tints unfold the scenes of state,",
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    "text": "He bids dread Calpe cease to shake the waves,",
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    "text": "Trumbull with daring hand their fame recalls;",
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    "text": "Britannia too his glowing tint shall claim,",
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    "text": "To equal fame ascends thy tuneful throng,",
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