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    "text": "Bleak winter is subdued at length,",
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    "text": "And now long-wish’d-for spring is come,",
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    "text": "How alter’d is the scene!",
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    "text": "Where’er we tread, beneath our feet",
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    "text": "The clust’ring flowers spring;",
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    "text": "But ah! in vain I strive to join,",
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    "text": "Oh! would my Saviour from on high",
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    "text": "No creature then more bless’d than I,",
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    "text": "Till then no softly warbling thrush,",
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    "text": "Nor cowslip’s sweet perfume,",
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    "text": "Nor beauties of each painted bush,",
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    "text": "Can dissipate my gloom.",
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    "text": "To Adam, soon as he transgress’d,",
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    "text": "Thus Eden bloom’d in vain:",
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    "text": "Not Paradise could give him rest,",
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    "text": "Or sooth his heart-felt pain.",
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    "text": "Yet here an emblem I perceive",
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    "text": "Of what the Lord can do:",
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    "text": "Dear Saviour, help me to believe,",
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    "text": "That I may nourish too.",
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    "text": "Thy word can soon my hopes revive,",
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    "text": "Can overcome my foes,",
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    "text": "And make my languid graces thrive",
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    "text": "And blossom like the rose.",
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