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    "text": "As the time draws nigh glooming a cloud,",
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    "text": "I shall go forth,",
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    "text": "I shall traverse the States awhile, but I cannot tell whither or how long,",
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   {
    "text": "O book, O chants! must all then amount to but this?",
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    "text": "Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us?⁠—and yet it is enough, O soul;",
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    "text": "O soul, we have positively appear’d⁠—that is enough.",
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