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 "title": "An Hymn to the Evening",
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    "text": "Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main",
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   {
    "text": "The pealing thunder shook the heav’nly plain;",
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   {
    "text": "Majestic grandeur! From the zephyr’s wing,",
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    "text": "Exhales the incense of the blooming spring.",
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   {
    "text": "Soft purl the streams, the birds renew their notes,",
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   {
    "text": "And through the air their mingled music floats.",
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    "text": "Through all the heav’ns what beauteous dies are spread!",
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    "text": "But the west glories in the deepest red:",
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   {
    "text": "So may our breasts with ev’ry virtue glow,",
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   {
    "text": "The living temples of our God below!",
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   {
    "text": "Fill’d with the praise of him who gives the light,",
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    "text": "And draws the sable curtains of the night,",
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   {
    "text": "Let placid slumbers sooth each weary mind,",
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   {
    "text": "At morn to wake more heav’nly, more refin’d;",
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   {
    "text": "So shall the labours of the day begin",
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    "text": "More pure, more guarded from the snares of sin.",
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    "text": "Night’s leaden sceptre seals my drowsy eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "Then cease, my song, till fair Aurora rise.",
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