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 "title": "Sympathy",
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    "text": "Souls of the Just, I call not you",
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   {
    "text": "To share this joy with me,",
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    "text": "This joy and wonder at the view",
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    "text": "Of mountain, plain, and sea;",
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    "text": "Ye, on that loftier mountain old,",
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    "text": "Safe lodged in Eden’s cell,",
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    "text": "Whence run the rivers four, behold",
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    "text": "This earth, as ere it fell.",
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    "text": "Or, when ye think of those who stay",
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    "text": "Still tried by the world’s fight,",
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    "text": "’Tis but in looking for the day",
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    "text": "Which shall the lost unite.",
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    "text": "Ye rather, elder Spirits strong!",
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    "text": "Who from the first have trod",
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    "text": "This nether scene, man’s race among,",
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    "text": "The while you live to God,",
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    "text": "Ye see, and ye can sympathize⁠—",
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    "text": "Vain thought! their mighty ken",
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    "text": "Fills height and depth, the stars, the skies,",
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    "text": "They smile at dim-eyed men.",
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    "text": "Ah, Saviour! I perforce am Thine,",
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    "text": "Angel and Saint apart:",
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    "text": "Those searching Eyes are all-divine,",
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    "text": "All-human is that Heart.",
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