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 "title": "A Funeral Poem on the Death of C. E. An Infant of Twelve Months",
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  "venue": "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)",
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    "text": "Through airy roads he wings his instant flight",
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   {
    "text": "To purer regions of celestial light;",
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   {
    "text": "Enlarg’d he sees unnumber’d systems roll,",
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   {
    "text": "Beneath him sees the universal whole,",
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   {
    "text": "Planets on planets run their destin’d round,",
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   {
    "text": "And circling wonders fill the vast profound.",
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   {
    "text": "Th’ ethereal now, and now th’ empyreal skies",
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   {
    "text": "With growing splendors strike his wond’ring eyes:",
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   {
    "text": "The angels view him with delight unknown,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Press his soft hand, and seat him on his throne;",
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   {
    "text": "Then smilling thus: “To this divine abode,",
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    "text": "“The seat of saints, of seraphs, and of God,",
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   {
    "text": "“Thrice welcome thou.” The raptur’d babe replies,",
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   {
    "text": "“Thanks to my God, who snatch’d me to the skies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“E’er vice triumphant had possess’d my heart,",
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   {
    "text": "“E’er yet the tempter had beguil’d my heart,",
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   {
    "text": "“E’er yet on sin’s base actions I was bent,",
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   {
    "text": "“E’er yet I knew temptation’s dire intent;",
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   {
    "text": "“E’er yet the lash for horrid crimes I felt,",
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   {
    "text": "“E’er vanity had led my way to guilt,",
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   {
    "text": "“But, soon arriv’d at my celestial goal,",
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   {
    "text": "“Full glories rush on my expanding soul.”",
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    "text": "Joyful he spoke: exulting cherubs round",
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    "text": "Clapt their glad wings, the heav’nly vaults resound.",
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    "text": "Say, parents, why this unavailing moan?",
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   {
    "text": "Why heave your pensive bosoms with the groan?",
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   {
    "text": "To Charles, the happy subject of my song,",
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   {
    "text": "A brighter world, and nobler strains belong.",
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   {
    "text": "Say would you tear him from the realms above",
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   {
    "text": "By thoughtless wishes, and prepost’rous love?",
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   {
    "text": "Doth his felicity increase your pain?",
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   {
    "text": "Or could you welcome to this world again",
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   {
    "text": "The heir of bliss? with a superior air",
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   {
    "text": "Methinks he answers with a smile severe,",
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   {
    "text": "“Thrones and dominions cannot tempt me there.”",
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    "text": "But still you cry, “Can we the sigh forbear,",
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   {
    "text": "“And still and still must we not pour the tear?",
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   {
    "text": "“Our only hope, more dear than vital breath,",
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   {
    "text": "“Twelve moons revolv’d, becomes the prey of death;",
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   {
    "text": "“Delightful infant, nightly visions give",
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   {
    "text": "“Thee to our arms, and we with joy receive,",
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   {
    "text": "“We fain would clasp the Phantom to our breast,",
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   {
    "text": "“The Phantom flies, and leaves the soul unblest.”",
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    "text": "To yon bright regions let your faith ascend,",
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   {
    "text": "Prepare to join your dearest infant friend",
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   {
    "text": "In pleasures without measure, without end.",
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