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 "title": "To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina",
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   {
    "text": "Though thou did’st hear the tempest from afar,",
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   {
    "text": "And felt’st the horrors of the wat’ry war,",
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    "text": "To me unknown, yet on this peaceful shore",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Methinks I hear the storm tumultuous roar,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And how stern Boreas with impetuous hand",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Compell’d the Nereids to usurp the land.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Reluctant rose the daughters of the main,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And slow ascending glided o’er the plain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till Aeolus in his rapid chariot drove",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In gloomy grandeur from the vault above:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Furious he comes. His winged sons obey",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their frantic sire, and madden all the sea.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The billows rave, the wind’s fierce tyrant roars,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And with his thund’ring terrors shakes the shores:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Broken by waves the vessel’s frame is rent,",
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   {
    "text": "And strows with planks the wat’ry element.",
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   {
    "text": "But thee, Maria, a kind Nereid’s shield",
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   {
    "text": "Preserv’d from sinking, and thy form upheld:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sure some heav’nly oracle design’d",
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   {
    "text": "At that dread crisis to instruct thy mind",
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   {
    "text": "Things of eternal consequence to weigh,",
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   {
    "text": "And to thine heart just feelings to convey",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of things above, and of the future doom,",
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   {
    "text": "And what the births of the dread world to come.",
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   {
    "text": "From tossing seas I welcome thee to land.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Resign her, Nereid,” ’twas thy God’s command.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy spouse late buried, as thy fears conceiv’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Again returns, thy fears are all reliev’d:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy daughter blooming with superior grace",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Again thou see’st, again thine arms embrace;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O come, and joyful show thy spouse his heir,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And what the blessings of maternal care!",
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