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 "subtitle": "On Mrs. W⁠⸺’s Voyage to England",
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    "text": "While raging tempests shake the shore,",
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    "text": "While Aelus’ thunders round us roar,",
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    "text": "And sweep impetuous o’er the plain",
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    "text": "Be still, O tyrant of the main;",
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    "text": "Nor let thy brow contracted frowns betray,",
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    "text": "While my Susanna skims the wat’ry way.",
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    "text": "The Pow’r propitious hears the lay,",
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    "text": "The blue-ey’d daughters of the sea",
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    "text": "With sweeter cadence glide along,",
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    "text": "And Thames responsive joins the song.",
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    "text": "Pleas’d with their notes Sol sheds benign his ray,",
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    "text": "And double radiance decks the face of day.",
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    "text": "To court thee to Britannia’s arms",
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    "text": "Serene the climes and mild the sky,",
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    "text": "Her region boasts unnumber’d charms,",
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    "text": "Thy welcome smiles in ev’ry eye.",
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    "text": "Thy promise, Neptune keep, record my pray’r,",
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    "text": "Not give my wishes to the empty air.",
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