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    "text": "Affections, Instincts, Principles, and Powers,",
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    "text": "Impulse and Reason, Freedom and Control⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "So men, unravelling God’s harmonious whole,",
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   {
    "text": "Rend in a thousand shreds this life of ours.",
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   {
    "text": "Vain labour! Deep and broad, where none may see,",
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   {
    "text": "Spring the foundations of the shadowy throne",
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    "text": "Where man’s one Nature, queen-like, sits alone,",
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    "text": "Centred in a majestic unity;",
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   {
    "text": "And rays her powers, like sister islands, seen",
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    "text": "Linking their coral arms under the sea:",
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   {
    "text": "Or cluster’d peaks, with plunging gulfs between",
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    "text": "Spann’d by aerial arches, all of gold,",
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    "text": "Whereo’er the chariot wheels of Life are roll’d",
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    "text": "In cloudy circles, to eternity.",
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