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    "text": "The corn has turned from grey to red,",
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    "text": "Since first my spirit wandered forth",
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    "text": "From the drear cities of the north,",
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    "text": "And to Italia’s mountains fled.",
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    "text": "And here I set my face towards home,",
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    "text": "For all my pilgrimage is done,",
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    "text": "Although, methinks, yon blood-red sun",
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    "text": "Marshals the way to Holy Rome.",
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    "text": "O Blessed Lady, who dost hold",
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    "text": "Upon the seven hills thy reign!",
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    "text": "O Mother without blot or stain,",
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    "text": "Crowned with bright crowns of triple gold!",
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    "text": "O Roma, Roma, at thy feet",
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    "text": "I lay this barren gift of song!",
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    "text": "For, ah! the way is steep and long",
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    "text": "And yet what joy it were for me",
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    "text": "To turn my feet unto the south,",
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    "text": "And journeying towards the Tiber mouth",
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    "text": "And wandering through the tangled pines",
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    "text": "That break the gold of Arno’s stream,",
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    "text": "By many a vineyard-hidden home,",
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    "text": "Orchard and olive-garden grey,",
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    "text": "Till from the drear Campagna’s way",
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    "text": "The seven hills bear up the dome!",
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    "text": "A pilgrim from the northern seas⁠—",
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    "text": "What joy for me to seek alone",
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    "text": "The wondrous temple and the throne",
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    "text": "Of Him who holds the awful keys!",
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    "text": "When, bright with purple and with gold,",
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    "text": "Come priest and holy Cardinal,",
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    "text": "And borne above the heads of all",
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    "text": "The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.",
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    "text": "O joy to see before I die",
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    "text": "The only God-anointed King,",
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    "text": "And hear the silver trumpets ring",
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    "text": "A triumph as He passes by!",
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    "text": "Or at the brazen-pillared shrine",
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    "text": "Holds high the mystic sacrifice,",
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    "text": "And shows his God to human eyes",
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    "text": "Beneath the veil of bread and wine.",
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    "text": "For lo, what changes time can bring!",
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    "text": "The cycles of revolving years",
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    "text": "May free my heart from all its fears,",
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    "text": "And teach my lips a song to sing.",
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    "text": "Before yon field of trembling gold",
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    "text": "Is garnered into dusty sheaves,",
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    "text": "Or ere the autumn’s scarlet leaves",
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    "text": "Flutter as birds adown the wold,",
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    "text": "I may have run the glorious race,",
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    "text": "And caught the torch while yet aflame,",
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    "text": "And called upon the holy name",
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    "text": "Of Him who now doth hide His face.",
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    "text": "Arona.",
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