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 "title": "To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. 1768",
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   {
    "text": "Your subjects hope, dread Sire⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The crown upon your brows may flourish long,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And that your arm may in your God be strong!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O may your sceptre num’rous nations sway,",
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   {
    "text": "And all with love and readiness obey!",
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   {
    "text": "But how shall we the British king reward!",
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   {
    "text": "Rule thou in peace, our father, and our lord!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Midst the remembrance of thy favours past,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The meanest peasants most admire the last.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "May George, beloved by all the nations round,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Live with heav’ns choicest constant blessings crown’d!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Great God, direct, and guard him from on high,",
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   {
    "text": "And from his head let ev’ry evil fly!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And may each clime with equal gladness see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A monarch’s smile can set his subjects free!",
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