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    "text": "With His kind mother, who partakes thy woe,",
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   {
    "text": "Joseph, turn back; see where your child doth sit,",
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   {
    "text": "Blowing, yea blowing out those sparks of wit,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which Himself on the doctors did bestow.",
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   {
    "text": "The Word but lately could not speak, and lo!",
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   {
    "text": "It suddenly speaks wonders; whence comes it,",
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   {
    "text": "That all which was, and all which should be writ,",
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   {
    "text": "A shallow seeming child should deeply know?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His Godhead was not soul to His manhood,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor had time mellow’d Him to this ripeness;",
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   {
    "text": "But as for one which hath a long task, ’tis good,",
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   {
    "text": "With the sun to begin His business,",
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    "text": "He in His age’s morning thus began,",
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