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 "title": "The Queen of Seasons",
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    "text": "All is divine",
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   {
    "text": "which the Highest has made,",
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    "text": "Through the days that He wrought,",
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    "text": "till the day when He stay’d;",
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    "text": "Above and below,",
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    "text": "within and around,",
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    "text": "From the centre of space,",
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    "text": "In beauty surpassing",
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    "text": "the Universe smiled,",
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    "text": "On the morn of its birth,",
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    "text": "like an innocent child,",
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    "text": "Or like the rich bloom",
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    "text": "of some delicate flower;",
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    "text": "And the Father rejoiced",
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    "text": "in the work of His power.",
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    "text": "Yet worlds brighter still,",
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    "text": "and a brighter than those,",
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    "text": "And a brighter again,",
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    "text": "He had made, had He chose;",
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    "text": "And you never could name",
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    "text": "that conceivable best,",
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    "text": "To exhaust the resources",
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    "text": "the Maker possess’d.",
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    "text": "But I know of one work",
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    "text": "of his Infinite Hand,",
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    "text": "Which special and singular",
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    "text": "ever must stand;",
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    "text": "So perfect, so pure,",
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    "text": "and of gifts such a store,",
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    "text": "That even Omnipotence",
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    "text": "The freshness of May,",
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    "text": "and the sweetness of June,",
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    "text": "And the fire of July",
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    "text": "in its passionate noon,",
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    "text": "Munificent August,",
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    "text": "September serene,",
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    "text": "Are together no match",
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    "text": "for my glorious Queen.",
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    "text": "O Mary, all months",
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    "text": "and all days are thine own,",
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    "text": "In thee lasts their joyousness,",
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    "text": "when they are gone;",
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    "text": "And we give to thee May,",
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    "text": "not because it is best,",
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    "text": "But because it comes first,",
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    "text": "and is pledge of the rest.",
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