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    "text": "Others abide our question. Thou art free.",
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    "text": "We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still,",
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   {
    "text": "Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill",
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   {
    "text": "That to the stars uncrowns his majesty,",
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    "text": "Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea,",
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    "text": "Making the Heaven of Heavens his dwelling-place,",
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    "text": "Spares but the cloudy border of his base",
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    "text": "To the foil’d searching of mortality:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know,",
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   {
    "text": "Self-school’d, self-scann’d, self-honour’d, self-secure,",
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    "text": "Didst walk on earth unguess’d at. Better so!",
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    "text": "All pains the immortal spirit must endure,",
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    "text": "All weakness which impairs, all griefs that bow,",
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    "text": "Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.",
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