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 "title": "On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age",
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 "poet": "Phillis Wheatley",
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  "year": 1773,
  "venue": "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)",
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   {
    "text": "From dark abodes to fair etherial light",
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   {
    "text": "Th’ enraptur’d innocent has wing’d her flight;",
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    "text": "On the kind bosom of eternal love",
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   {
    "text": "She finds unknown beatitude above.",
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   {
    "text": "This know, ye parents, nor her loss deplore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She feels the iron hand of pain no more;",
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   {
    "text": "The dispensations of unerring grace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Should turn your sorrows into grateful praise;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let then no tears for her henceforward flow,",
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   {
    "text": "No more distress’d in our dark vale below.",
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   {
    "text": "Her morning sun, which rose divinely bright,",
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   {
    "text": "Was quickly mantled with the gloom of night;",
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   {
    "text": "But hear in heav’n’s blest bow’rs your Nancy fair,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And learn to imitate her language there.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Thou, Lord, whom I behold with glory crown’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“By what sweet name, and in what tuneful sound",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Wilt thou be prais’d? Seraphic pow’rs are faint",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Infinite love and majesty to paint.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“To thee let all their graceful voices raise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“And saints and angels join their songs of praise.”",
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   {
    "text": "Perfect in bliss she from her heav’nly home",
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   {
    "text": "Looks down, and smiling beckons you to come;",
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   {
    "text": "Why then, fond parents, why these fruitless groans?",
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   {
    "text": "Restrain your tears, and cease your plaintive moans.",
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   {
    "text": "Freed from a world of sin, and snares, and pain,",
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   {
    "text": "Why would you wish your daughter back again?",
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   {
    "text": "No⁠—bow resign’d. Let hope your grief control,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And check the rising tumult of the soul.",
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   {
    "text": "Calm in the prosperous, and adverse day,",
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   {
    "text": "Adore the God who gives and takes away;",
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   {
    "text": "Eye him in all, his holy name revere,",
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   {
    "text": "Upright your actions, and your hearts sincere,",
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   {
    "text": "Till having sail’d through life’s tempestuous sea,",
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   {
    "text": "And from its rocks, and boist’rous billows free,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yourselves, safe landed on the blissful shore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall join your happy babe to part no more.",
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