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 "title": "Sacrilege",
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 "poet": "John Henry Newman",
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    "text": "The Church shone brightly in her youthful days",
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   {
    "text": "Ere the world on her smiled;",
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   {
    "text": "So now, an outcast, she would pour her rays",
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    "text": "Keen, free, and undefiled:",
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   {
    "text": "Yet would I not that arm of force were mine,",
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   {
    "text": "Which thrusts her from her awful ancient shrine.",
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   {
    "text": "’Twas duty bound each convert-king to rear",
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   {
    "text": "His Mother from the dust,",
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   {
    "text": "And pious was it to enrich, nor fear",
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    "text": "Christ for the rest to trust;",
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    "text": "And who shall dare make common or unclean",
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    "text": "What once has on the Holy Altar been?",
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    "text": "Dear brothers!⁠—hence, while ye for ill prepare,",
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   {
    "text": "Triumph is still your own;",
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   {
    "text": "Blest is a pilgrim Church!⁠—yet shrink to share",
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   {
    "text": "The curse of throwing down.",
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   {
    "text": "So will we toil in our old place to stand,",
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    "text": "Watching, not dreading, the despoiler’s hand.",
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