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 "title": "On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall. 1771",
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  "year": 1773,
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    "text": "Through thickest glooms look back, immortal shade,",
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   {
    "text": "On that confusion which thy death has made:",
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    "text": "Or from Olympus’ height look down, and see",
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   {
    "text": "A Town involv’d in grief bereft of thee.",
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   {
    "text": "Thy Lucy sees thee mingle with the dead,",
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   {
    "text": "And rends the graceful tresses from her head,",
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   {
    "text": "Wild in her woe, with grief unknown opprest",
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   {
    "text": "Sigh follows sigh deep heaving from her breast.",
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   {
    "text": "Too quickly fled, ah! whither art thou gone?",
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   {
    "text": "Ah! lost for ever to thy wife and son!",
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   {
    "text": "The hapless child, thine only hope and heir,",
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    "text": "Clings round his mother’s neck, and weeps his sorrows there.",
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    "text": "The loss of thee on Tyler’s soul returns,",
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    "text": "And Boston for her dear physician mourns.",
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    "text": "When sickness call’d for Marshall’s healing hand,",
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   {
    "text": "With what compassion did his soul expand?",
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   {
    "text": "In him we found the father and the friend:",
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   {
    "text": "In life how lov’d! how honour’d in his end!",
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   {
    "text": "And must not then our Aesculapius stay",
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   {
    "text": "To bring his ling’ring infant into day?",
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   {
    "text": "The babe unborn in the dark womb is tost,",
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   {
    "text": "And seems in anguish for its father lost.",
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    "text": "Gone is Apollo from his house of earth,",
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    "text": "But leaves the sweet memorials of his worth:",
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   {
    "text": "The common parent, whom we all deplore,",
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   {
    "text": "From yonder world unseen must come no more,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet ’midst our woes immortal hopes attend",
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   {
    "text": "The spouse, the sire, the universal friend.",
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