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    "text": "Whether that soul which now comes up to you",
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    "text": "Fill any former rank, or make a new;",
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    "text": "Whether it take a name named there before,",
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    "text": "Or be a name itself and order more",
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    "text": "Than was in heaven till now⁠—for may not he",
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    "text": "Be so, if every several angel be",
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    "text": "A kind alone? whatever order grow",
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    "text": "Greater by him in heaven, we do not so.",
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    "text": "One of your orders grows by his access,",
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    "text": "But, by his loss, grow all our orders less;",
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    "text": "The name of father, master, friend, the name",
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    "text": "Of subject and of prince, in one is lame;",
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   {
    "text": "Fair mirth is damp’d, and conversation black,",
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    "text": "The Household widow’d, and the Garter slack;",
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    "text": "The Chapel wants an ear, Council a tongue;",
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    "text": "Story, a theme; and Music lacks a song.",
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    "text": "Blest order that hath him, the loss of him",
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    "text": "Gangrened all orders here; all lost a limb.",
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    "text": "Never made body such haste to confess",
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    "text": "What a soul was; all former comeliness",
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    "text": "Fled, in a minute, when the soul was gone;",
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    "text": "And, having lost that beauty, would have none.",
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    "text": "So fell our monasteries, in an instant grown",
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    "text": "Not to less houses, but to heaps of stone;",
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    "text": "So sent his body that fair form it wore",
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    "text": "Unto the sphere of forms, and doth⁠—before",
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    "text": "His soul shall fill up his sepulchral stone⁠—",
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    "text": "Anticipate a resurrection.",
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    "text": "For, as in his fame now his soul is here,",
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   {
    "text": "So, in the form thereof, his body’s there;",
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   {
    "text": "And if, fair soul, not with first Innocents",
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   {
    "text": "Thy station be, but with the Penitents,",
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   {
    "text": "—And who shall dare to ask then, when I am",
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   {
    "text": "Dyed scarlet in the blood of that pure Lamb,",
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    "text": "Whether that colour, which is scarlet then,",
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    "text": "Were black or white before in eyes of men?⁠—",
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    "text": "When thou rememb’rest what sins thou didst find",
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    "text": "Amongst those many friends now left behind,",
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    "text": "And seest such sinners, as they are, with thee",
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    "text": "Got thither by repentance, let it be",
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   {
    "text": "Thy wish to wish all there, to wish them clean,",
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   {
    "text": "Wish him a David, her a Magdalen.",
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