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 "title": "Apostacy",
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   {
    "text": "France! I will think of thee as what thou wast,",
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   {
    "text": "When Poictiers show’d her zeal for the true creed;",
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   {
    "text": "Or in that age, when Holy Truth, though cast",
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   {
    "text": "On a rank soil, yet was a thriving seed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy schools within, from neighbouring countries chased;",
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   {
    "text": "E’en of thy pagan day I bear to read,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy Martyrs sanctified the guilty host,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sons of blessèd John, rear’d on a western coast.",
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   {
    "text": "I dare not think of thee as what thou art,",
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   {
    "text": "Lest thoughts too deep for man should trouble me.",
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   {
    "text": "It is not safe to place the mind and heart",
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   {
    "text": "On brink of evil, or its flames to see,",
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   {
    "text": "Lest they should dizzy, or some taint impart,",
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    "text": "Or to our sin a fascination be.",
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   {
    "text": "And so in silence I will now proclaim",
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    "text": "Hate of thy present self, and scarce will sound thy name.",
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