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    "text": "My home is now a thousand miles away;",
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   {
    "text": "Yet in my thoughts its every image fair",
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    "text": "Rises as keen, as I still linger’d there,",
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    "text": "And, turning me, could all I loved survey.",
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   {
    "text": "And so, upon Death’s unaverted day,",
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   {
    "text": "As I speed upwards, I shall on me bear,",
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    "text": "And in no breathless whirl, the things that were,",
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    "text": "And duties given, and ends I did obey.",
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   {
    "text": "And, when at length I reach the Throne of Power,",
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    "text": "Ah! still unscared, I shall in fulness see",
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    "text": "The vision of my past innumerous deeds,",
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    "text": "My deep heart-courses, and their motive-seeds,",
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    "text": "So to gaze on till the red dooming hour.",
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    "text": "Lord, in that strait, the Judge! remember me!",
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