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    "text": "The tide is out, the wind blows off the shore;",
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    "text": "Bare burn the white sands in the scorching sun;",
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    "text": "The sea complains, but its great voice is low.",
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    "text": "Bitter thy woes, O People,",
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    "text": "And the burden",
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    "text": "Hardly to be borne!",
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    "text": "Wearily grows, O People,",
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    "text": "All the aching",
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    "text": "Of thy pierced heart, bruised and torn!",
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    "text": "But yet thy time is not,",
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    "text": "And low thy moaning.",
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    "text": "Desert thy sands!",
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    "text": "Not yet is thy breath hot,",
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    "text": "Vengefully blowing;",
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    "text": "It wafts o’er lifted hands.",
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    "text": "The tide has turned; the vane veers slowly round;",
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    "text": "Slow clouds are sweeping o’er the blinding light;",
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    "text": "White crests curl on the sea⁠—its voice grows deep.",
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    "text": "Angry thy heart, O People,",
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    "text": "And its bleeding",
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   {
    "text": "Fire-tipped with rising hate!",
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   {
    "text": "Thy clasped hands part, O People,",
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    "text": "For thy praying",
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   {
    "text": "Warmed not the desolate!",
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    "text": "God did not hear thy moan:",
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    "text": "Now it is swelling",
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    "text": "To a great drowning cry;",
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    "text": "The tide flows in, the wind roars from the depths,",
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    "text": "The whirled-white sand heaps with the foam-white waves;",
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    "text": "Thundering the sea rolls o’er its shell-crunched wall!",
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    "text": "Strong is thy rage, O People,",
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    "text": "In its fury",
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    "text": "Hurling thy tyrants down!",
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    "text": "Thou metest wage, O People.",
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    "text": "Very swiftly,",
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    "text": "Now that thy hate is grown:",
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    "text": "Thy time at last is come;",
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    "text": "Thou heapest anguish,",
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    "text": "Where thou thyself wert bare!",
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    "text": "No longer to thy dumb",
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    "text": "God clasped and kneeling,",
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    "text": "Thou answerest thine own prayer.",
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