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    "text": "Adieu, New-England’s smiling meads,",
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    "text": "Adieu, the flow’ry plain:",
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    "text": "I leave thine op’ning charms, O spring,",
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    "text": "And tempt the roaring main.",
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    "text": "In vain for me the flow’rets rise,",
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    "text": "While here beneath the northern skies",
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    "text": "Celestial maid of rosy hue,",
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    "text": "O let me feel thy reign!",
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    "text": "I languish till thy face I view,",
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    "text": "Thy vanish’d joys regain.",
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    "text": "Susanna mourns, nor can I bear",
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    "text": "To see the crystal show’r,",
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    "text": "Or mark the tender falling tear",
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    "text": "Not unregarding can I see",
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    "text": "Her soul with grief opprest:",
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    "text": "But let no sighs, no groans for me,",
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    "text": "Steal from her pensive breast.",
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    "text": "In vain the feather’d warblers sing,",
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    "text": "And on the bosom of the spring",
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    "text": "Breathes out her sweet perfumes,",
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    "text": "While for Britannia’s distant shore",
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    "text": "We sweep the liquid plain,",
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    "text": "And with astonish’d eyes explore",
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    "text": "The wide-extended main.",
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    "text": "Lo! Health appears! celestial dame!",
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    "text": "Complacent and serene,",
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    "text": "With Hebe’s mantle o’er her Frame,",
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    "text": "To mark the vale where London lies",
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    "text": "With misty vapours crown’d,",
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    "text": "Which cloud Aurora’s thousand dyes,",
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    "text": "Why, Phoebus, moves thy car so slow?",
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    "text": "So slow thy rising ray?",
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    "text": "Give us the famous town to view,",
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    "text": "Thou glorious king of day!",
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    "text": "For thee, Britannia, I resign",
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    "text": "New-England’s smiling fields;",
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    "text": "To view again her charms divine,",
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    "text": "What joy the prospect yields!",
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    "text": "But thou! Temptation hence away,",
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    "text": "With all thy fatal train",
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    "text": "Nor once seduce my soul away,",
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    "text": "By thine enchanting strain.",
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    "text": "Thrice happy they, whose heav’nly shield",
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    "text": "Secures their souls from harms,",
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    "text": "And fell Temptation on the field",
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    "text": "Of all its pow’r disarms!",
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