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    "text": "I dream’d that, with a passionate complaint,",
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   {
    "text": "I wish’d me born amid God’s deeds of might;",
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    "text": "And envied those who had the presence bright",
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    "text": "Of gifted Prophet and strong-hearted Saint,",
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    "text": "Whom my heart loves, and Fancy strives to paint.",
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    "text": "I turn’d, when straight a stranger met my sight,",
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    "text": "Came as my guest, and did awhile unite",
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    "text": "His lot with mine, and lived without restraint.",
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    "text": "Courteous he was, and grave⁠—so meek in mien,",
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    "text": "It seem’d untrue, or told a purpose weak;",
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    "text": "Yet, in the mood, he could with aptness speak,",
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    "text": "Or with stern force, or show of feelings keen,",
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    "text": "Marking deep craft, methought, or hidden pride:⁠—",
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    "text": "Then came a voice⁠—“St. Paul is at thy side.”",
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