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 "title": "To the Duke of Wellington",
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 "subtitle": "On Hearing Him Mispraised",
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    "text": "Because thou hast believ’d, the wheels of life",
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   {
    "text": "Stand never idle, but go always round:",
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   {
    "text": "Not by their hands, who vex the patient ground,",
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    "text": "Mov’d only; but by genius, in the strife",
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    "text": "Of all its chafing torrents after thaw,",
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    "text": "Urg’d; and to feed whose movement, spinning sand,",
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    "text": "The feeble sons of pleasure set their hand:",
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    "text": "And, in this vision of the general law,",
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   {
    "text": "Hast labour’d with the foremost, hast become",
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    "text": "Laborious, persevering, serious, firm;",
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    "text": "For this, thy track, across the fretful foam",
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    "text": "Of vehement actions without scope or term,",
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    "text": "Call’d History, keeps a splendour: due to wit,",
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    "text": "Which saw one clue to life, and follow’d it.",
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