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    "text": "Do not their souls, who ’neath the Altar wait",
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   {
    "text": "Until their second birth,",
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    "text": "The gift of patience need, as separate",
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    "text": "From their first friends of earth?",
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    "text": "Not that earth’s blessings are not all outshone",
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    "text": "By Eden’s Angel flame,",
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    "text": "But that earth knows not yet, the Dead has won",
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   {
    "text": "That crown, which was his aim.",
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   {
    "text": "For when he left it, ’twas a twilight scene",
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   {
    "text": "About his silent bier,",
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    "text": "A breathless struggle, faith and sight between,",
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    "text": "And Hope and sacred Fear.",
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    "text": "Fear startled at his pains and dreary end,",
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   {
    "text": "Hope raised her chalice high,",
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    "text": "And the twin-sisters still his shade attend,",
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    "text": "View’d in the mourner’s eye.",
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    "text": "So day by day for him from earth ascends,",
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    "text": "As steam in summer-even,",
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   {
    "text": "The speechless intercession of his friends,",
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    "text": "Toward the azure heaven.",
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   {
    "text": "Ah dearest, with a word he could dispel",
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    "text": "All questioning, and raise",
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    "text": "Our hearts to rapture, whispering all was well",
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    "text": "And turning prayer to praise.",
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    "text": "And other secrets too he could declare,",
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    "text": "By patterns all divine,",
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    "text": "His earthly creed retouching here and there,",
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   {
    "text": "And deepening every line.",
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   {
    "text": "Dearest! he longs to speak, as I to know,",
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   {
    "text": "And yet we both refrain:",
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   {
    "text": "It were not good: a little doubt below,",
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   {
    "text": "And all will soon be plain.",
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