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    "text": "Between two comrades dear,",
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    "text": "Zealous and true as they,",
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    "text": "Thou, prudent Ethelwald, didst bear",
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    "text": "In that high home the sway.",
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    "text": "A man, who ne’er, ’tis said,",
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   {
    "text": "Would of his graces tell,",
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   {
    "text": "Or with what arms he triumphèd",
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    "text": "Over the Dragon fell.",
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    "text": "So down to us hath come",
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    "text": "A memorable word,",
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    "text": "Which in unguarded season from",
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    "text": "His blessed lips was heard.",
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    "text": "It chanced, that, as the Saint",
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    "text": "Drank in with faithful ear",
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    "text": "Of Angel tones the whispers faint,",
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    "text": "Thus spoke a brother dear:",
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    "text": "“Oh, why so many a pause,",
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    "text": "Thwarting thy words’ full stream,",
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    "text": "Till her dark line Oblivion draws",
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    "text": "Across the broken theme?”",
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    "text": "He answered: “Till thou seal",
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    "text": "To sounds of earth thine ear,",
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    "text": "Sweet friend, be sure thou ne’er shalt feel",
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    "text": "Angelic voices near.”",
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    "text": "But then the hermit blest",
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    "text": "A sudden change came o’er;",
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    "text": "He shudders, sobs, and smites his breast,",
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    "text": "“Oh, by the Name Most High,",
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    "text": "What I have now let fall,",
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    "text": "Hush, till I lay me down to die,",
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    "text": "And go the way of all!”",
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    "text": "Thus did a Saint in fear",
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    "text": "His gifts celestial hide;",
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    "text": "Thus did an Angel standing near",
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