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    "text": "Where’er I roam in this fair English land,",
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    "text": "The vision of a Temple meets my eyes:",
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    "text": "Modest without; within, all-glorious rise",
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    "text": "Its love-encluster’d columns, and expand",
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    "text": "Their slender arms. Like olive-plants they stand,",
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    "text": "Each answ’ring each, in home’s soft sympathies,",
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    "text": "Sisters and brothers. At the altar sighs",
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    "text": "Parental fondness, and with anxious hand",
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    "text": "Tenders its offering of young vows and prayers.",
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    "text": "The same, and not the same, go where I will,",
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    "text": "The vision beams! ten thousand shrines, all one.",
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    "text": "Dear fertile soil! what foreign culture bears",
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    "text": "Such fruit? And I through distant climes may run",
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    "text": "My weary round, yet miss thy likeness still.",
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