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    "text": "How hurtful was the choice of Lot,",
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    "text": "Who took up his abode",
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    "text": "(Because it was a fruitful spot)",
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    "text": "With them who fear’d not God!",
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    "text": "A pris’ner he was quickly made,",
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    "text": "Bereaved of all his store;",
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    "text": "And but for Abra’m’s timely aid",
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    "text": "He had return’d no more.",
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    "text": "Yet still he seem’d resolved to stay,",
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    "text": "Although their sins from day to day",
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    "text": "His righteous soul distress’d.",
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    "text": "Awhile he stay’d, with anxious mind,",
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    "text": "Exposed to scorn and strife;",
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    "text": "At last he left his all behind,",
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    "text": "In vain his sons-in-law he warn’d;",
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    "text": "They thought he told his dreams;",
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   {
    "text": "His daughters too of them had learn’d,",
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    "text": "And perish’d in the flames.",
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    "text": "His wife escaped a little way,",
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    "text": "But died for looking back:",
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    "text": "Does not her case to pilgrims say,",
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    "text": "“Beware of growing slack”?",
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    "text": "Yea, Lot himself could ling’ring stand",
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    "text": "Though vengeance was in view;",
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    "text": "’Twas Mercy pluck’d him by the hand",
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    "text": "Or he had perish’d too.",
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    "text": "The doom of Sodom will be ours",
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    "text": "If to the earth we cleave:",
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    "text": "Lord, quicken all our drowsy powers",
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   {
    "text": "To flee to thee and live.",
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