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    "text": "Darest thou now O soul,",
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   {
    "text": "Walk out with me toward the unknown region,",
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    "text": "Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?",
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    "text": "No map there, nor guide,",
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    "text": "Nor voice sounding, nor touch of human hand,",
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    "text": "Nor face with blooming flesh, nor lips, nor eyes, are in that land.",
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    "text": "I know it not O soul,",
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    "text": "Nor dost thou, all is a blank before us,",
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    "text": "All waits undream’d of in that region, that inaccessible land.",
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    "text": "Till when the ties loosen,",
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    "text": "All but the ties eternal, Time and Space,",
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    "text": "Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, nor any bounds bounding us.",
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    "text": "Then we burst forth, we float,",
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    "text": "In Time and Space O soul, prepared for them,",
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    "text": "Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil O soul.",
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