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    "text": "“Oh could thy grave at home, at Carthage, be!”⁠—",
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    "text": "Care not for that, and lay me where I fall.",
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    "text": "Everywhere heard will be the judgment-call.",
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    "text": "But at God’s altar, oh! remember me.",
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    "text": "Thus Monica, and died in Italy.",
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    "text": "Yet fervent had her longing been, through all",
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    "text": "Her course, for home at last, and burial",
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    "text": "Had been; but at the end, to her pure soul",
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    "text": "All tie with all beside seem’d vain and cheap,",
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    "text": "Creeds pass, rites change, no altar standeth whole;",
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    "text": "Yet we her memory, as she pray’d, will keep,",
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    "text": "Keep by this: Life in God, and union there!",
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