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    "text": "To see the infinite pity of this place,",
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    "text": "The mangled limb, the devastated face,",
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    "text": "The innocent sufferer smiling at the rod⁠—",
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    "text": "A fool were tempted to deny his God.",
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    "text": "He sees, he shrinks. But if he gaze again,",
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    "text": "Lo, beauty springing from the breast of pain;",
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    "text": "He marks the sisters on the mournful shores;",
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