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 "title": "Death and War. 1778",
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    "text": "Hark! how Time’s wide-sounding bell",
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    "text": "Strikes on each attentive ear!",
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    "text": "Tolling loud the solemn knell",
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    "text": "Of the late departed year:",
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    "text": "Years, like mortals, wear away,",
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    "text": "Have their birth and dying day,",
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    "text": "Youthful spring and wintry age,",
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    "text": "Then to others quit the stage.",
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    "text": "Sad experience may relate",
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    "text": "What a year the last has been:",
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   {
    "text": "Crops of sorrow have been great",
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    "text": "From the fruitful seeds of sin:",
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    "text": "Oh! what numbers, gay and blithe,",
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   {
    "text": "Fell by Death’s unsparing scythe,",
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   {
    "text": "While they thought the world their own,",
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    "text": "Suddenly he mow’d them down!",
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    "text": "See how War, with dreadful stride,",
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    "text": "Marches at the Lord’s command,",
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    "text": "Spreading desolation wide",
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    "text": "Through a once much-favour’d land:",
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    "text": "War, with heart and arms of steel,",
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   {
    "text": "Preys on thousands at a meal;",
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    "text": "Daily drinking human gore,",
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    "text": "Still he thirsts and calls for more.",
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   {
    "text": "If the God whom we provoke",
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   {
    "text": "Hither should his way direct;",
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   {
    "text": "What a sin-avenging stroke",
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   {
    "text": "May a land like this expect!",
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   {
    "text": "They who now securely sleep,",
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   {
    "text": "Quickly then would wake and weep;",
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    "text": "And too late would learn to fear,",
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    "text": "When they saw the danger near.",
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    "text": "You are safe who know his love;",
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    "text": "He will all his truth perform;",
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    "text": "To your souls a refuge prove",
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   {
    "text": "From the rage of every storm:",
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   {
    "text": "But we tremble for the youth!",
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    "text": "Teach them, Lord, thy saving truth;",
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   {
    "text": "Join them to thy faithful few,",
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   {
    "text": "Be to them a refuge too.",
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