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 "title": "On the Death of a Young Gentleman",
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   {
    "text": "Who taught thee conflict with the pow’rs of night,",
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   {
    "text": "To vanquish satan in the fields of light?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who strung thy feeble arms with might unknown,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How great thy conquest, and how bright thy crown!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "War with each princedom, throne, and pow’r is o’er,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The scene is ended to return no more.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O could my muse thy seat on high behold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How deckt with laurel, how enrich’d with gold!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O could she hear what praise thine harp employs,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How sweet thine anthems, how divine thy joys!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What heav’nly grandeur should exalt her strain!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What holy raptures in her numbers reign!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To sooth the troubles of the mind to peace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To still the tumult of life’s tossing seas,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To ease the anguish of the parents heart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What shall my sympathizing verse impart?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where is the balm to heal so deep a wound?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where shall a sov’reign remedy be found?",
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   {
    "text": "Look, gracious Spirit, from thine heav’nly bow’r,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And thy full joys into their bosoms pour;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The raging tempest of their grief control,",
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   {
    "text": "And spread the dawn of glory through the soul,",
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   {
    "text": "To eye the path the saint departed trod,",
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   {
    "text": "And trace him to the bosom of his God.",
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