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    "text": "Thou champion high",
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   {
    "text": "Of Heaven’s imperial Bride,",
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   {
    "text": "For ever waiting on her eye,",
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    "text": "Before her onward path, and at her side,",
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    "text": "To thee was given,",
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    "text": "When those false angels rose",
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    "text": "Against the Majesty of Heaven,",
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    "text": "To hurl them down the steep, and on them close",
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    "text": "The prison where they roam in hopeless unrepose.",
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    "text": "Thee, Michael, thee,",
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    "text": "When sight and breathing fail,",
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    "text": "The disembodied soul shall see;",
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    "text": "The pardon’d soul with solemn joy shall hail,",
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    "text": "When holiest rites are spent, and tears no more avail.",
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    "text": "And thou, at last,",
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    "text": "When Time itself must die,",
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    "text": "Shalt sound that dread and piercing blast,",
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    "text": "To wake the dead, and rend the vaulted sky,",
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   {
    "text": "And summon all to meet the Omniscient Judge on high.",
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