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    "text": "If poisonous minerals, and if that tree,",
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    "text": "If lecherous goats, if serpents envious",
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    "text": "Cannot be damn’d, alas! why should I be?",
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    "text": "Why should intent or reason, born in me,",
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    "text": "Make sins, else equal, in me more heinous?",
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    "text": "And, mercy being easy, and glorious",
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    "text": "To God, in His stern wrath why threatens He?",
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    "text": "But who am I, that dare dispute with Thee?",
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    "text": "O God, O! of Thine only worthy blood,",
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    "text": "And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,",
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    "text": "And drown in it my sin’s black memory.",
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    "text": "That Thou remember them, some claim as debt;",
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    "text": "I think it mercy if Thou wilt forget.",
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