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   {
    "text": "Christ, dost thou live indeed? or are thy bones",
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   {
    "text": "Still straitened in their rock-hewn sepulchre?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And was thy Rising only dreamed by her",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose love of thee for all her sin atones?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For here the air is horrid with men’s groans,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The priests who call upon thy name are slain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dost thou not hear the bitter wail of pain",
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   {
    "text": "From those whose children lie upon the stones?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Come down, O Son of God! incestuous gloom",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Curtains the land, and through the starless night",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Over thy Cross a Crescent moon I see!",
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   {
    "text": "If Thou in very truth didst burst the tomb",
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   {
    "text": "Come down, O Son of Man! and show thy might",
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   {
    "text": "Lest Muhammad be crowned instead of Thee!",
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