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    "text": "O heart of fire! misjudged by wilful man,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou flower of Jesse’s race!",
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    "text": "What woe was thine, when thou and Jonathan",
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    "text": "Last greeted face to face!",
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    "text": "He doom’d to die, thou on us to impress",
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    "text": "The portent of a blood-stain’d holiness.",
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    "text": "Yet it was well:⁠—for so, ’mid cares of rule",
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   {
    "text": "And crime’s encircling tide,",
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   {
    "text": "A spell was o’er thee, zealous one, to cool",
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    "text": "Earth-joy and kingly pride;",
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    "text": "With battle-scene and pageant, prompt to blend",
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    "text": "The pale calm spectre of a blameless friend.",
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    "text": "Ah! had he lived, before thy throne to stand,",
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    "text": "Thy spirit keen and high",
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    "text": "Sure it had snapp’d in twain love’s slender band,",
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    "text": "So dear in memory;",
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    "text": "Paul, of his comrade reft, the warning gives⁠—",
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    "text": "He lives to us who dies, he is but lost who lives.",
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