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 "title": "To the University of Cambridge, in New-England",
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   {
    "text": "While an intrinsic ardor prompts to write,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The muses promise to assist my pen;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Twas not long since I left my native shore",
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   {
    "text": "The land of errors, and Egyptian gloom:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Father of mercy, ’twas thy gracious hand",
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   {
    "text": "Brought me in safety from those dark abodes.",
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   {
    "text": "Students, to you ’tis giv’n to scan the heights",
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   {
    "text": "Above, to traverse the ethereal space,",
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   {
    "text": "And mark the systems of revolving worlds.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Still more, ye sons of science ye receive",
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   {
    "text": "The blissful news by messengers from heav’n,",
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   {
    "text": "How Jesus’ blood for your redemption flows.",
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    "text": "See him with hands out-stretcht upon the cross;",
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   {
    "text": "Immense compassion in his bosom glows;",
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   {
    "text": "He hears revilers, nor resents their scorn:",
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   {
    "text": "What matchless mercy in the Son of God!",
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   {
    "text": "When the whole human race by sin had fall’n,",
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   {
    "text": "He deign’d to die that they might rise again,",
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   {
    "text": "And share with him in the sublimest skies,",
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   {
    "text": "Life without death, and glory without end.",
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    "text": "Improve your privileges while they stay,",
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   {
    "text": "Ye pupils, and each hour redeem, that bears",
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   {
    "text": "Or good or bad report of you to heav’n.",
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    "text": "Let sin, that baneful evil to the soul,",
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    "text": "By you be shun’d, nor once remit your guard;",
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   {
    "text": "Suppress the deadly serpent in its egg.",
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   {
    "text": "Ye blooming plants of human race divine,",
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   {
    "text": "An Ethiop tells you ’tis your greatest foe;",
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   {
    "text": "Its transient sweetness turns to endless pain,",
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    "text": "And in immense perdition sinks the soul.",
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