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    "text": "’Twas August, and the fierce sun overhead",
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    "text": "Smote on the squalid streets of Bethnal Green,",
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    "text": "And the pale weaver, through his windows seen",
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    "text": "In Spitalfields, look’d thrice dispirited;",
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    "text": "I met a preacher there I knew, and said:",
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    "text": "“Ill and o’erwork’d, how fare you in this scene?”",
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   {
    "text": "“Bravely!” said he; “for I of late have been",
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    "text": "Much cheer’d with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.”",
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    "text": "O human soul! as long as thou canst so",
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    "text": "Set up a mark of everlasting light,",
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    "text": "Above the howling senses’ ebb and flow,",
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    "text": "To cheer thee, and to right thee if thou roam,",
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    "text": "Not with lost toil thou labourest through the night!",
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