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    "text": "Hesper again his heavenly power display’d",
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    "text": "And shook the yielding canopy of shade.",
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    "text": "Sudden the stars their trembling fires withdrew,",
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   {
    "text": "Returning splendors burst upon the view,",
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   {
    "text": "Floods of unfolding light the skies adorn",
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    "text": "And more than midday glories grace the morn.",
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    "text": "So shone the earth, as if the sideral train,",
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    "text": "Broad as full suns, had sail’d the ethereal plain;",
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    "text": "When no distinguisht orb could strike the sight,",
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    "text": "But one clear blaze of all surrounding light",
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    "text": "O’erflow’d the vault of heaven. For now in view",
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    "text": "Remoter climes and future ages drew;",
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    "text": "Whose deeds of happier fame, in long array,",
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    "text": "Call’d into vision, fill the newborn day.",
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    "text": "Far as seraphic power could lift the eye,",
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    "text": "Or earth or ocean bend the yielding sky,",
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    "text": "Or circling suns awake the breathing gale,",
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    "text": "Drake lead the way, or Cook extend the sail;",
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    "text": "Where Behren sever’d, with adventurous prow,",
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   {
    "text": "Hesperia’s headland from Tartaria’s brow;",
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    "text": "Where sage Vancouver’s patient leads were hurl’d,",
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    "text": "Where Deimen stretcht his solitary world;",
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    "text": "All lands, all seas that boast a present name",
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    "text": "And all that unborn time shall give to fame",
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    "text": "Around the Pair in bright expansion rise,",
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    "text": "And earth in one vast level bounds the skies.",
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    "text": "They saw the nations tread their different shores,",
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    "text": "Ply their own toils and wield their local powers,",
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   {
    "text": "Their present state in all its views disclose,",
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    "text": "Their gleams of happiness, their shades of woes,",
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    "text": "Plodding in various stages through the range",
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    "text": "Of man’s unheeded but unceasing change.",
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    "text": "Columbus traced them with experienced eye",
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    "text": "And class’d and counted all the flags that fly;",
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   {
    "text": "He markt what tribes still rove the savage waste,",
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    "text": "What cultured realms the sweets of plenty taste;",
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    "text": "Where arts and virtues fix their golden reign,",
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    "text": "Or peace adorns or slaughter dyes the plain.",
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    "text": "He saw the restless Tartar proud to roam,",
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    "text": "Move with his herds and pitch a transient home;",
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    "text": "Tibet’s long tracts and China’s fixt domain,",
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    "text": "Dull as their despots, yield their cultured grain;",
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    "text": "Cambodia, Siam, Asia’s myriad isles",
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    "text": "And old Indostan, with their wealthy spoils",
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    "text": "Attract adventures masters, and o’ershade",
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    "text": "Their sunbright ocean with the wings of trade.",
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    "text": "Arabian robbers, Syrian Kurds combined,",
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    "text": "Create their deserts and infest mankind;",
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    "text": "The Turk’s dim crescent, like a day-struck star,",
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    "text": "As Russia’s eagle shades their haunts of war,",
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    "text": "Shrinks from insulted Europe, who divide",
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    "text": "The shatter’d empire to the Pontic tide.",
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    "text": "He traced impervious Afric, where alone",
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    "text": "She lies encircled with the verdant zone",
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    "text": "That lines her endless coast and still sustains",
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    "text": "Her northern pirates and her eastern swains,",
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    "text": "Mourns her interior tribes purloin’d away",
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    "text": "And chain’d and sold beyond Atlantic day.",
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    "text": "Brazilla’s wilds, Mackensie’s savage lands",
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    "text": "With bickering strife inflame their furious bands;",
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    "text": "Atlantic isles and Europe’s cultured shores",
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    "text": "Heap their vast wealth, exchange their growing stores,",
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    "text": "All arts inculcate, new discoveries plan,",
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    "text": "Tease and torment but school the race of man.",
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    "text": "While his own federal states, extending far,",
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    "text": "Calm their brave sons now breathing from the war,",
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    "text": "Unfold their harbors, spread their genial soil",
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    "text": "And welcome freemen to the cheerful toil.",
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    "text": "A sight so solemn, as it varied round,",
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    "text": "Fill’d his fond heart with reveries profound;",
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   {
    "text": "He felt the infinitude of thoughts that pass",
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    "text": "And guide and govern that enormous mass.",
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    "text": "The cares that agitate, the creeds that blind,",
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    "text": "The woes that waste the many-master’d kind,",
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   {
    "text": "The distance great that still remains to trace,",
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   {
    "text": "Ere sober sense can harmonize the race,",
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    "text": "Held him suspense, imprest with reverence meek,",
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    "text": "And choked his utterance as he wish’d to speak:",
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    "text": "When Hesper thus: The paths they here pursue,",
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   {
    "text": "Wide as they seem unfolding to thy view,",
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   {
    "text": "Show but a point in that long circling course",
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    "text": "Which cures their weakness and confirms their force,",
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    "text": "Lends that experience which alone can close",
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    "text": "The scenes of strife and give the world repose.",
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    "text": "Yet here thou seest the same progressive plan",
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    "text": "That draws for mutual succour man to man,",
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    "text": "From twain to tribe, from tribe to realm dilates,",
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    "text": "In federal union groups a hundred states,",
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    "text": "Through all their turns with gradual scale ascends,",
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    "text": "Their powers, their passions and their interest blends;",
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    "text": "While growing arts their social virtues spread,",
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    "text": "Enlarge their compacts and unlock their trade;",
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    "text": "Till each remotest clan, by commerce join’d,",
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    "text": "Links in the chain that binds all humankind,",
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    "text": "Their bloody banners sink in darkness furl’d",
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    "text": "And one white flag of peace triumphant walks the world.",
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    "text": "As infant streams, from oozing earth at first",
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    "text": "With feeble force and lonely murmurs burst,",
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    "text": "From myriad unseen fountains draw the rills",
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    "text": "And curl contentious round their hundred hills,",
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    "text": "Meet, froth and foam, their dashing currents swell,",
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    "text": "O’er crags and rocks their furious course impel,",
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   {
    "text": "Impetuous plunging plow the mounds of earth",
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    "text": "And tear the fostering flanks that gave them birth;",
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    "text": "Mad with the strength they gain, they thicken deep",
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    "text": "Their muddy waves and slow and sullen creep,",
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    "text": "O’erspread whole regions in their lawless pride,",
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    "text": "Then stagnate long, then shrink and curb their tide;",
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   {
    "text": "Anon more tranquil grown, with steadier sway,",
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    "text": "Through broader banks they shape their seaward way,",
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    "text": "From different climes converging, join and spread",
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    "text": "Their mingled waters in one widening bed,",
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    "text": "Profound, transparent; till the liquid zone",
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    "text": "Bands half the globe and drinks the golden sun,",
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   {
    "text": "Sweeps onward still the still expanding plain",
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    "text": "And moves majestic to the boundless main.",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis thus Society’s small sources rise;",
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    "text": "Through passions wild her infant progress lies;",
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    "text": "Fear, with its host of follies, errors, woes,",
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    "text": "Creates her obstacles and forms her foes;",
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    "text": "Misguided interest, local pride withstand,",
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    "text": "Till long-tried ills her growing views expand,",
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    "text": "Till tribes and states and empires find their place,",
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    "text": "Whose mutual wants her widest walks embrace;",
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    "text": "Enlighten’d interest, moral sense at length,",
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    "text": "Combine their aids to elevate her strength,",
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    "text": "Lead o’er the world her peace-commanding sway",
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    "text": "And light her steps with everlasting day.",
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    "text": "From that markt stage of man we now behold",
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    "text": "More rapid strides his coming paths unfold;",
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    "text": "His continents are traced, his islands found,",
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    "text": "His well taught sails on all his billows bound,",
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    "text": "His varying wants their new discoveries ply",
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    "text": "And seek in earth’s whole range their sure supply.",
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    "text": "First of his future stages, thou shalt see",
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    "text": "His trade unfetter’d and his ocean free.",
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    "text": "From thy young states the code consoling springs",
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    "text": "To strip from vulture War his naval wings;",
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    "text": "In views so just all Europe’s powers combine,",
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    "text": "And earth’s full voice approves the vast design.",
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    "text": "Though still her inland realms the combat wage",
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    "text": "And hold in lingering broils the unsettled age,",
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    "text": "Yet no rude shocks that shake the crimson plain",
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    "text": "Shall more disturb the labors of the main;",
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    "text": "The main that spread so wide his travell’d way,",
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    "text": "Liberal as air, impartial as the day,",
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    "text": "That all thy race the common wealth might share,",
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    "text": "Exchange their fruits and fill their treasures there,",
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    "text": "Their speech assimilate, their counsels blend,",
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    "text": "Till mutual interest fix the mutual friend.",
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    "text": "Now see, my son, the destined hour advance;",
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    "text": "Safe in their leagues commercial navies dance,",
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    "text": "Leave their curst cannon on the quay-built strand",
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    "text": "And like the stars of heaven a fearless course command.",
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    "text": "The Hero lookt; beneath his wondering eyes",
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    "text": "Gay streamers lengthen round the seas and skies;",
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    "text": "The countless nations open all their stores,",
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    "text": "Load every wave and crowd the lively shores;",
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    "text": "Bright sails in mingling mazes streak the air,",
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    "text": "And commerce triumphs o’er the rage of war.",
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    "text": "From Baltic streams, from Elba’s opening side,",
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    "text": "From Rhine’s long course and Texel’s laboring tide,",
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   {
    "text": "From Gaul, from Albion, tired of fruitless fight,",
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    "text": "From green Hibernia, clothed in recent light,",
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   {
    "text": "Hispania’s strand that two broad oceans lave,",
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    "text": "From Senegal and Gambia’s golden wave,",
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    "text": "Tago the rich and Douro’s viny shores,",
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    "text": "The sweet Canaries and the soft Azores,",
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    "text": "Commingling barks their mutual banners hail",
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    "text": "And drink by turns the same distending gale.",
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    "text": "Through Calpe’s strait that leads the Midland main,",
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    "text": "From Adria, Pontus, Nile’s resurgent reign,",
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    "text": "The sails look forth and wave their bandrols high",
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    "text": "And ask their breezes from a broader sky.",
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    "text": "Where Asia’s isles and utmost shorelands bend,",
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   {
    "text": "Like rising suns the sheeted masts ascend;",
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   {
    "text": "Coast after coast their flowing flags unroll,",
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   {
    "text": "From Deimen’s rocks to Zembla’s ice-propt pole,",
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    "text": "Where Behren’s pass collapsing worlds divides,",
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    "text": "Where California breaks the billowy tides,",
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    "text": "Peruvian streams their golden margins boast,",
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    "text": "Or Chile bluffs or Plata flats the coast.",
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    "text": "Where, clothed in splendor, his Atlantic way",
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    "text": "Spreads the blue borders of Hesperian day,",
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    "text": "From all his havens, with majestic sweep,",
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    "text": "The swiftest boldest daughters of the deep",
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    "text": "Swarm forth before him; till the cloudlike train",
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    "text": "From pole to pole o’ersheet the whitening main.",
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    "text": "So some primeval seraph, placed on high,",
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    "text": "From heaven’s sublimest point o’erlookt the sky,",
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    "text": "When space unfolding heard the voice of God,",
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    "text": "And suns and stars and systems roll’d abroad,",
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   {
    "text": "Caught their first splendors from his beamful eye,",
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   {
    "text": "Began their years and vaulted round their sky;",
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    "text": "Their social spheres in bright confusion play,",
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    "text": "Exchange their beams and fill the newborn day.",
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    "text": "Nor seas alone the countless barks behold;",
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    "text": "Earth’s inland realms their naval paths unfold.",
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    "text": "Her plains, long portless, now no more complain",
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    "text": "Of useless rills and fountains nursed in vain;",
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    "text": "Canals curve through them many a liquid line,",
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    "text": "Prune their wild streams, their lakes and oceans join.",
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    "text": "Where Darien hills o’erlook the gulfy tide,",
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    "text": "Cleft in his view the enormous banks divide;",
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    "text": "Ascending sails their opening pass pursue",
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    "text": "And waft the sparkling treasures of Peru.",
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    "text": "Moxoe resigns his stagnant world of fen,",
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    "text": "Allures, rewards the cheerful toils of men,",
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    "text": "Leads their long new made rivers round his reign,",
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    "text": "Drives off the stench and waves his golden grain,",
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    "text": "Feeds a whole nation from his cultured shore,",
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    "text": "Where not a bird could skim the skies before.",
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    "text": "From Mohawk’s mouth, far westing with the sun,",
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    "text": "Long bright canals through all the midlands run,",
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    "text": "Tap the redundant lakes, the broad hills brave,",
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    "text": "And Hudson marry with Missouri’s wave.",
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    "text": "From dim Superior, whose uncounted sails",
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    "text": "Shade his full seas and bosom all his gales,",
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    "text": "New paths unfolding seek Mackensie’s tide,",
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    "text": "And towns and empires rise along their side;",
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   {
    "text": "Slave’s crystal highways all his north adorn,",
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   {
    "text": "Like coruscations from the boreal morn.",
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   {
    "text": "Proud Mississippi, tamed and taught his road,",
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   {
    "text": "Flings forth irriguous from his generous flood",
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    "text": "Ten thousand watery glades; that, round him curl’d,",
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    "text": "From the red banks of Arab’s odorous tide",
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    "text": "Their Isthmus opens and strange waters glide;",
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    "text": "Europe from all her shores with crowded sails,",
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    "text": "Volga and Obi distant oceans join,",
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    "text": "Delighted Danube weds the wasting Rhine;",
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    "text": "Elbe, Oder, Neister channel many a plain,",
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    "text": "Each acre irrigate, re-road the earth",
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    "text": "And serve at last the purpose of their birth.",
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    "text": "String with strong nerves the renovating race,",
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    "text": "Their numbers multiply in every land,",
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    "text": "Their toils diminish and their powers expand;",
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    "text": "And while she rears them with a statelier frame",
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    "text": "Soar in the Bard and strengthen in the Sage:",
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    "text": "The Bard with bolder hand assumes the lyre,",
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    "text": "Warms the glad nations with unwonted fire,",
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    "text": "Their tides of transport through the expanding soul.",
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    "text": "Old ocean crimsons and Olympus nods,",
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    "text": "Uprooted mountains sweep the dark profound",
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    "text": "Or Titans groan beneath the rending ground.",
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    "text": "No more his clangor maddens up the mind,",
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    "text": "To crush, to conquer and enslave mankind,",
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    "text": "To build on ruin’d realms the shrines of fame,",
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    "text": "And load his numbers with a tyrant’s name.",
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    "text": "Far nobler objects animate his tongue",
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    "text": "O’er cultured earth the rage of conquest cease,",
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    "text": "War sink in night and nature smile in peace.",
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    "text": "Soaring with science then he learns to string",
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    "text": "Her highest harp, and brace her broadest wing,",
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    "text": "With her own force to fray the paths untrod,",
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    "text": "The Sage with steadier lights directs his ken,",
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    "text": "Their mutual aids, their sister laws proclaims.",
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    "text": "Disease before him with its causes flies,",
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    "text": "His well proved codes the healing science aid,",
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    "text": "Its base establish and its blessing spread,",
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    "text": "With long wrought life to teach the race to glow,",
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    "text": "Yield new creations, finer forms to man,",
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    "text": "High springs of health for mind and body trace,",
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    "text": "Add force and beauty to the joyous race,",
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    "text": "Lay the proud storm submissive at his feet,",
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    "text": "Change, temper, tame all subterranean heat,",
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    "text": "Probe laboring earth, and drag from her dark side",
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    "text": "Walk under ocean, ride the buoyant air,",
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    "text": "Brew the soft shower, the labor’d land repair,",
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    "text": "Where system’d realms their mutual glories lend,",
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    "text": "And well-taught sires the cares of state attend,",
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    "text": "Through every maze of man they learn to wind,",
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    "text": "Note each device that prompts the Proteus mind,",
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    "text": "What soft restraints the tempered breast requires",
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    "text": "To taste new joys and cherish new desires,",
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    "text": "Expand the selfish to the social flame,",
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    "text": "And rear the soul to deeds of nobler fame.",
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    "text": "They mark, in all the past records of praise,",
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    "text": "What partial views heroic zeal could raise;",
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    "text": "What mighty states on others’ ruins stood",
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    "text": "And built unsafe their haughty seats in blood;",
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    "text": "How public virtue’s ever borrow’d name",
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    "text": "With proud applauses graced the deeds of shame,",
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    "text": "Bade each imperial standard wave sublime,",
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    "text": "And wild ambition havoc every clime;",
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    "text": "From chief to chief the kindling spirit ran,",
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    "text": "Heirs of false fame and enemies of man.",
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    "text": "Where Grecian states in even balance hung",
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    "text": "The exclusive ardor cherisht in the breast",
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    "text": "Love to one land and hatred to the rest.",
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    "text": "The mime of virtue rises still the same",
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    "text": "But now no more the patriotic mind,",
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    "text": "To narrow views and local laws confined,",
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    "text": "Gainst neighboring lands directs the public rage,",
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    "text": "Plods for a clan or counsels for an age;",
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    "text": "But soars to loftier thoughts, and reaches far",
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    "text": "Beyond the power, beyond the wish of war;",
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    "text": "For realms and ages forms the general aim,",
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    "text": "Markt all the changes that around him rise,",
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    "text": "Lived through descending ages as they roll",
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    "text": "And feasted still the still expanding soul;",
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    "text": "When now the peopled regions swell more near,",
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    "text": "And a mixt noise tumultuous stuns his ear.",
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    "text": "At first, like heavy thunders roll’d in air,",
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    "text": "Or waves resounding on the craggy shore,",
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    "text": "Hoarse roll’d the loud-toned undulating roar.",
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    "text": "But soon the sounds like human voices rise,",
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    "text": "All nations pouring undistinguisht cries;",
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    "text": "Till more distinct the wide concussion grown",
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    "text": "Rolls forth at times an accent like his own.",
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    "text": "By turns the tongues assimilating blend,",
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    "text": "And smoother idioms over earth ascend;",
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    "text": "Mingling and softening still in every gale,",
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    "text": "O’er discord’s din, harmonious tones prevail.",
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    "text": "At last a simple universal sound",
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    "text": "Such wild commotions as he heard and view’d,",
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    "text": "In fixt astonishment the Hero stood",
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    "text": "And thus besought the Guide: Celestial friend,",
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    "text": "What good to man can these dread scenes intend?",
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    "text": "Some sore distress attends that boding sound",
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    "text": "That breathed its hoarse tonations o’er the ground.",
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    "text": "War sure hath ceased; or have my erring eyes",
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    "text": "Misread the glorious visions of the skies?",
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    "text": "Tell then, my Seer, if future earthquakes sleep,",
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    "text": "Closed in the conscious caverns of the deep,",
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    "text": "Waiting the day of vengeance, when to roll",
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    "text": "And rock the rending pillars of the pole.",
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    "text": "Or tell if aught more dreadful to my race",
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    "text": "In these dark signs thy heavenly wisdom trace;",
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    "text": "And why the loud discordance melts again",
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    "text": "In the smooth glidings of a tuneful strain.",
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    "text": "The guardian god replied: Thy fears give o’er;",
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    "text": "War’s hosted hounds shall havoc earth no more;",
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    "text": "No sore distress these signal sounds foredoom,",
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    "text": "But give the pledge of peaceful years to come;",
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    "text": "The tongues of nations here their accents blend,",
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    "text": "Till one pure language through the world extend.",
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    "text": "Thou know’st the tale of Babel; how the skies",
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    "text": "Fear’d for their safety as they felt him rise,",
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    "text": "Gave like the rest a golden age to man,",
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    "text": "’Tis thus the teachers of despotic sway",
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    "text": "Strive in all times to blot the beams of day,",
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    "text": "To keep him curb’d nor let him lift his eyes",
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    "text": "They lead him blind, and o’er each newborn light",
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    "text": "Cast their own shadows, renovate the night,",
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    "text": "Crush every art that might the mind expand",
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    "text": "And plant with demons every desert land;",
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    "text": "That, fixt in straiten’d bounds, the lust of power",
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    "text": "May ravage still and still the race devour,",
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    "text": "An easy prey the hoodwinkt hordes remain,",
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    "text": "Long have they reign’d; till now the race at last",
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    "text": "Shake off their manacles, their blinders cast,",
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    "text": "O’errule the crimes their fraudful foes produce,",
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    "text": "By ways unseen to serve the happiest use,",
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    "text": "Tempt the wide wave, probe every yielding soil,",
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    "text": "Fill with their fruits the hardy hand of toil,",
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    "text": "Unite their forces, wheel the conquering car,",
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    "text": "Dear bought the experiment and hard the strife",
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    "text": "Of social man, that rear’d his arts to life.",
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    "text": "His reason calm, their watchful guide design’d,",
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    "text": "That stronger light, from nature’s double codes,",
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    "text": "Now springs expanding and his doubts explodes;",
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    "text": "All nations catch it, all their tongues combine",
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    "text": "To hail the human morn and speak the day divine.",
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    "text": "At this blest period, when the total race",
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    "text": "Shall speak one language and all truths embrace,",
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    "text": "Instruction clear a speedier course shall find,",
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    "text": "And open earlier on the infant mind.",
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    "text": "No foreign terms shall crowd with barbarous rules",
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    "text": "The dull unmeaning pageantry of schools;",
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    "text": "Nor dark authorities nor names unknown",
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    "text": "Fill the learn’d head with ignorance not its own;",
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    "text": "Her boldest flights with fullest force express;",
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    "text": "Triumphant virtue, in the garb of truth,",
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    "text": "Pervade all climes where suns or oceans roll",
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    "text": "And warm the world with one great moral soul,",
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    "text": "To see, facilitate, attain the scope",
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    "text": "As early Phosphor, on his silver throne,",
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   {
    "text": "Fair type of truth and promise of the sun,",
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   {
    "text": "Smiles up the orient in his dew-dipt ray,",
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   {
    "text": "Illumes the front of heaven and leads the day;",
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   {
    "text": "Thus Physic Science with exploring eyes",
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   {
    "text": "First o’er the nations bids her beauties rise,",
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   {
    "text": "Prepares the glorious way to pour abroad",
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   {
    "text": "Her Sister’s brighter beams, the purest light of God.",
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   {
    "text": "Then Moral Science leads the lively mind",
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   {
    "text": "Through broader fields and pleasures more refined;",
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   {
    "text": "Teaches the temper’d soul, at one vast view,",
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   {
    "text": "To glance o’er time and look existence through,",
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   {
    "text": "See worlds and worlds, to being’s formless end,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With all their hosts on her prime power depend,",
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   {
    "text": "Seraphs and suns and systems, as they rise,",
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   {
    "text": "Live in her life and kindle from her eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "Her cloudless ken, her all pervading soul",
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   {
    "text": "Illume, sublime and harmonize the whole;",
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   {
    "text": "Teaches the pride of man its breadth to bound",
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   {
    "text": "In one small point of this amazing round,",
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   {
    "text": "To shrink and rest where nature fixt its fate,",
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   {
    "text": "A line its space, a moment for its date;",
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   {
    "text": "Instructs the heart an ampler joy to taste,",
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   {
    "text": "And share its feelings with each human breast,",
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   {
    "text": "Expand its wish to grasp the total kind",
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   {
    "text": "Of sentient soul, of cogitative mind;",
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   {
    "text": "Till mutual love commands all strife to cease,",
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   {
    "text": "And earth join joyous in the songs of peace.",
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    "text": "Thus heard Columbus, eager to behold",
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   {
    "text": "The famed Apocalypse its years unfold;",
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   {
    "text": "The soul stood speaking through his gazing eyes,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And thus his voice: Oh let the visions rise!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Command, celestial guide, from each far pole,",
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   {
    "text": "John’s vision’d morn to open on my soul,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And raise the scenes, by his reflected light,",
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   {
    "text": "Living and glorious to my longing sight.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let heaven unfolding show the eternal throne,",
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   {
    "text": "And all the concave flame in one clear sun;",
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   {
    "text": "On clouds of fire, with angels at his side,",
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   {
    "text": "The Prince of Peace, the King of Salem ride,",
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   {
    "text": "With smiles of love to greet the bridal earth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Call slumbering ages to a second birth,",
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   {
    "text": "With all his white-robed millions fill the train,",
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   {
    "text": "And here commence the interminable reign!",
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    "text": "Such views, the Saint replies, for sense too bright,",
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   {
    "text": "Would seal thy vision in eternal night;",
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   {
    "text": "Man cannot face nor seraph power display",
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   {
    "text": "The mystic beams of such an awful day.",
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   {
    "text": "Enough for thee, that thy delighted mind",
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   {
    "text": "Should trace the temporal actions of thy kind;",
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   {
    "text": "That time’s descending veil should ope so far",
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   {
    "text": "Beyond the reach of wretchedness and war,",
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   {
    "text": "Till all the paths in nature’s sapient plan",
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   {
    "text": "Fair in thy presence lead the steps of man,",
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   {
    "text": "And form at last, on earth’s extended ball,",
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   {
    "text": "Union of parts and happiness of all.",
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   {
    "text": "To thy glad ken these rolling years have shown",
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   {
    "text": "The boundless blessings thy vast labors crown,",
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   {
    "text": "That with the joys of unborn ages blest,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy soul exulting may retire to rest.",
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   {
    "text": "But see once more! beneath a change of skies,",
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   {
    "text": "The last glad visions wait thy raptured eyes.",
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    "text": "Eager he lookt. Another train of years",
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   {
    "text": "Had roll’d unseen, and brighten’d still their spheres;",
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   {
    "text": "Earth more resplendent in the floods of day",
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   {
    "text": "Assumed new smiles and flusht around him lay.",
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   {
    "text": "Green swell the mountains, calm the oceans roll,",
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   {
    "text": "Fresh beams of beauty kindle round the pole;",
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   {
    "text": "Through all the range where shores and seas extend,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In tenfold pomp the works of peace ascend.",
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   {
    "text": "Robed in the bloom of spring’s eternal year,",
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   {
    "text": "And ripe with fruits the same glad fields appear;",
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   {
    "text": "O’er hills and vales perennial gardens run,",
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   {
    "text": "Cities unwall’d stand sparkling to the sun;",
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   {
    "text": "The streams all freighted from the bounteous plain",
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   {
    "text": "Swell with the load and labor to the main,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose stormless waves command a steadier gale",
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   {
    "text": "And prop the pinions of a bolder sail:",
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   {
    "text": "Sway’d with the floating weight each ocean toils,",
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   {
    "text": "And joyous nature’s full perfection smiles.",
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    "text": "Fill’d with unfolding fate, the vision’d age",
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   {
    "text": "Now leads its actors on a broader stage;",
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   {
    "text": "When clothed majestic in the robes of state,",
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   {
    "text": "Moved by one voice, in general congress meet",
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   {
    "text": "The legates of all empires. ’Twas the place",
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   {
    "text": "Where man first sought to socialize his race;",
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   {
    "text": "Ere yet beguiled, the dark delirious hordes",
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   {
    "text": "Began to fight for altars and for lords;",
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   {
    "text": "Nile washes still the soil and feels once more",
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   {
    "text": "The works of wisdom press his peopled shore.",
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    "text": "In this mid site, this monumental clime,",
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   {
    "text": "Rear’d by all realms to brave the wrecks of time",
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   {
    "text": "A spacious dome swells up, commodious great,",
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   {
    "text": "The last resort, the unchanging scene of state.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On rocks of adamant the walls ascend,",
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   {
    "text": "Tall columns heave and sky-like arches bend;",
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   {
    "text": "Bright o’er the golden roofs the glittering spires",
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   {
    "text": "Far in the concave meet the solar fires;",
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   {
    "text": "Four blazing fronts, with gates unfolding high,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Look with immortal splendor round the sky:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hither the delegated sires ascend,",
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   {
    "text": "And all the cares of every clime attend.",
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    "text": "As the blest guardian guides, to whom was given",
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   {
    "text": "To light the suns and steer the stars of heaven,",
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   {
    "text": "(When one great cosmogyre has proved their spheres,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And time well taught them how to wind their years)",
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   {
    "text": "Shall meet in general council; call’d to state",
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   {
    "text": "The laws and labors that their charge await;",
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   {
    "text": "To learn, to teach, to settle how to hold",
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   {
    "text": "Their course more glorious, as their lights unfold:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From all the bounds of space (the mandate known)",
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   {
    "text": "They wing their passage to the eternal throne;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each through his far dim sky illumes the road,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sails and centres tow’rd the mount of God;",
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   {
    "text": "There, in mid universe, their seats to rear,",
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   {
    "text": "Exchange their counsels and their works compare:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So, from all tracts of earth, this gathering throng",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In ships and chariots shape their course along,",
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   {
    "text": "Reach with unwonted speed the place assign’d",
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   {
    "text": "To hear and give the counsels of mankind.",
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    "text": "South of the sacred mansion, first resort",
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   {
    "text": "The assembled sires, and pass the spacious court.",
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   {
    "text": "Here in his porch earth’s figured Genius stands,",
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   {
    "text": "Truth’s mighty mirror poizing in his hands;",
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   {
    "text": "Graved on the pedestal and chased in gold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Man’s noblest arts their symbol forms unfold,",
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   {
    "text": "His tillage and his trade; with all the store",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of wondrous fabrics and of useful lore:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Labors that fashion to his sovereign sway",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Earth’s total powers, her soil and air and sea;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Force them to yield their fruits at his known call,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And bear his mandates round the rolling ball.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Beneath the footstool all destructive things,",
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   {
    "text": "The mask of priesthood and the mace of kings,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lie trampled in the dust; for here at last",
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   {
    "text": "Fraud, folly, error all their emblems cast.",
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   {
    "text": "Each envoy here unloads his wearied hand",
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   {
    "text": "Of some old idol from his native land;",
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   {
    "text": "One flings a pagod on the mingled heap,",
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   {
    "text": "One lays a crescent, one a cross to sleep;",
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   {
    "text": "Swords, sceptres, mitres, crowns and globes and stars,",
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   {
    "text": "Codes of false fame and stimulants to wars",
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   {
    "text": "Sink in the settling mass; since guile began,",
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   {
    "text": "These are the agents of the woes of man.",
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    "text": "Now the full concourse, where the arches bend,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Pour through by thousands and their seats ascend.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far as the centred eye can range around,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or the deep trumpet’s solemn voice resound,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Long rows of reverend sires sublime extend,",
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   {
    "text": "And cares of worlds on every brow suspend.",
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   {
    "text": "High in the front, for soundest wisdom known,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A sire elect in peerless grandeur shone;",
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   {
    "text": "He open’d calm the universal cause",
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   {
    "text": "To give each realm its limit and its laws,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bid the last breath of tired contention cease",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And bind all regions in the leagues of peace;",
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   {
    "text": "Till one confederate, condependent sway",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Spread with the sun and bound the walks of day,",
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    "text": "One centred system, one all-ruling soul",
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   {
    "text": "Live through the parts and regulate the whole.",
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   {
    "text": "Here then, said Hesper, with a blissful smile,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Behold the fruits of thy long years of toil.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To yon bright borders of Atlantic day",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy swelling pinions led the trackless way",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And taught mankind such useful deeds to dare,",
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   {
    "text": "To trace new seas and happy nations rear;",
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   {
    "text": "Till by fraternal hands their sails unfurl’d",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have waved at last in union o’er the world.",
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   {
    "text": "Then let thy steadfast soul no more complain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of dangers braved and griefs endured in vain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of courts insidious, envy’s poison’d stings,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The loss of empire and the frown of kings;",
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   {
    "text": "While these broad views thy better thoughts compose",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To spurn the malice of insulting foes;",
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   {
    "text": "And all the joys descending ages gain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Repay thy labors and remove thy pain.",
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