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    "text": "While Moses on the Mountain lay,",
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    "text": "Night after night, and day by day,",
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    "text": "Till forty suns were gone,",
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    "text": "The pageant of a kingdom vast,",
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    "text": "Before the Prophet’s eye;",
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    "text": "Dread shadows of th’ Eternal Throne,",
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    "text": "The fount of Life, and Altar-stone,",
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    "text": "But lest he should his own forget,",
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    "text": "Who in the vale were struggling yet,",
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    "text": "He for his flock might intercede,",
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