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 "title": "To Captain H⁠⸺⁠d, of the 65th Regiment",
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    "text": "Say, muse divine, can hostile scenes delight",
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    "text": "The warrior’s bosom in the fields of fight?",
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   {
    "text": "Lo! here the Christian and the hero join",
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   {
    "text": "With mutual grace to form the man divine.",
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    "text": "In H⁠⸺⁠d see with pleasure and surprise,",
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   {
    "text": "Where valour kindles, and where virtue lies:",
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    "text": "Go, hero brave, still grace the post of fame,",
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   {
    "text": "And add new glories to thine honour’d name,",
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    "text": "Still to the field, and still to virtue true:",
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   {
    "text": "Britannia glories in no son like you.",
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