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    "text": "God knows it, I am with you. If to prize",
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    "text": "Teaches the limit of the just and true⁠—",
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    "text": "And for such doing have no need of eyes:",
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    "text": "If sadness at the long heart-wasting show",
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    "text": "Wherein earth’s great ones are disquieted:",
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    "text": "If thoughts, not idle, while before me flow",
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