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 "title": "St. Philip in His Disciples",
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 "poet": "John Henry Newman",
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    "text": "I ask not for fortune, for silken attire,",
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    "text": "For servants to throng me, and crowds to admire;",
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    "text": "I ask not for power, or for name or success,",
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    "text": "These do not content me, these never can bless.",
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    "text": "Let the world flaunt her glories! each glittering prize,",
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    "text": "Though tempting to others, is nought in my eyes.",
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    "text": "A child of St. Philip, my master and guide,",
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    "text": "I would live as he lived, and would die as he died.",
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    "text": "Why should I be sadden’d, though friendless I be?",
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    "text": "For who in his youth was so lonely as he?",
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    "text": "If spited and mock’d, so was he, when he cried",
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    "text": "To his God on the cross to stand by his side.",
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    "text": "If scanty my fare, yet how was he fed?",
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    "text": "On olives and herbs and a small roll of bread.",
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    "text": "Are my joints and bones sore with aches and with pains?",
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    "text": "Philip scourged his young flesh with fine iron chains.",
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    "text": "A closet his home, where he, year after year,",
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    "text": "Bore heat or cold greater than heat or cold here;",
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    "text": "A rope stretch’d across it, and o’er it he spread",
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    "text": "His small stock of clothes; and the floor was his bed.",
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    "text": "One lodging besides; God’s temple he chose,",
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    "text": "And he slept in its porch his few hours of repose;",
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    "text": "Or studied by light which the altar-lamp gave,",
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    "text": "Or knelt at the Martyr’s victorious grave.",
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    "text": "I’m ashamed of myself, of my tears and my tongue,",
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    "text": "So easily fretted, so often unstrung;",
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    "text": "Mad at trifles, to which a chance moment gives birth,",
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    "text": "Complaining of heaven, and complaining of earth.",
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    "text": "So now, with his help, no cross will I fear,",
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    "text": "But will linger resign’d through my pilgrimage here.",
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    "text": "A child of St. Philip, my master and guide,",
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    "text": "I will live as he lived, and will die as he died.",
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