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   {
    "text": "Singing my days,",
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   {
    "text": "Singing the great achievements of the present,",
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   {
    "text": "Singing the strong light works of engineers,",
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   {
    "text": "Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,)",
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    "text": "In the Old World the east the Suez canal,",
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    "text": "The New by its mighty railroad spann’d,",
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    "text": "The seas inlaid with eloquent gentle wires;",
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    "text": "Yet first to sound, and ever sound, the cry with thee O soul,",
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    "text": "The Past! the Past! the Past!",
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    "text": "The Past⁠—the dark unfathom’d retrospect!",
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    "text": "The teeming gulf⁠—the sleepers and the shadows!",
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    "text": "The past⁠—the infinite greatness of the past!",
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    "text": "For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?",
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    "text": "(As a projectile form’d, impell’d, passing a certain line, still keeps on,",
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    "text": "So the present, utterly form’d, impell’d by the past.)",
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    "text": "Passage O soul to India!",
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    "text": "Eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables.",
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    "text": "Not you alone proud truths of the world,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor you alone ye facts of modern science,",
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    "text": "But myths and fables of eld, Asia’s, Africa’s fables,",
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   {
    "text": "The far-darting beams of the spirit, the unloos’d dreams,",
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    "text": "The deep diving bibles and legends,",
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    "text": "The daring plots of the poets, the elder religions;",
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    "text": "O you temples fairer than lilies pour’d over by the rising sun!",
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   {
    "text": "O you fables spurning the known, eluding the hold of the known, mounting to heaven!",
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   {
    "text": "You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish’d with gold!",
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   {
    "text": "Towers of fables immortal fashion’d from mortal dreams!",
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   {
    "text": "You too I welcome and fully the same as the rest!",
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    "text": "You too with joy I sing.",
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    "text": "Passage to India!",
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   {
    "text": "Lo, soul, seest thou not God’s purpose from the first?",
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    "text": "The earth to be spann’d, connected by network,",
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   {
    "text": "The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage,",
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   {
    "text": "The oceans to be cross’d, the distant brought near,",
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    "text": "The lands to be welded together.",
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    "text": "A worship new I sing,",
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    "text": "You captains, voyagers, explorers, yours,",
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    "text": "You engineers, you architects, machinists, yours,",
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   {
    "text": "You, not for trade or transportation only,",
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    "text": "But in God’s name, and for thy sake O soul.",
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    "text": "Passage to India!",
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   {
    "text": "Lo soul for thee of tableaus twain,",
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   {
    "text": "I see in one the Suez canal initiated, open’d,",
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   {
    "text": "I see the procession of steamships, the Empress Eugenie’s leading the van,",
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   {
    "text": "I mark from on deck the strange landscape, the pure sky, the level sand in the distance,",
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   {
    "text": "I pass swiftly the picturesque groups, the workmen gather’d,",
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   {
    "text": "The gigantic dredging machines.",
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    "text": "In one again, different, (yet thine, all thine, O soul, the same,)",
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   {
    "text": "I see over my own continent the Pacific railroad surmounting every barrier,",
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   {
    "text": "I see continual trains of cars winding along the Platte carrying freight and passengers,",
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   {
    "text": "I hear the locomotives rushing and roaring, and the shrill steam-whistle,",
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   {
    "text": "I hear the echoes reverberate through the grandest scenery in the world,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I cross the Laramie plains, I note the rocks in grotesque shapes, the buttes,",
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   {
    "text": "I see the plentiful larkspur and wild onions, the barren, colorless, sage-deserts,",
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   {
    "text": "I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the great mountains, I see the Wind river and the Wahsatch mountains,",
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   {
    "text": "I see the Monument mountain and the Eagle’s Nest, I pass the Promontory, I ascend the Nevadas,",
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   {
    "text": "I scan the noble Elk mountain and wind around its base,",
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   {
    "text": "I see the Humboldt range, I thread the valley and cross the river,",
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   {
    "text": "I see the clear waters of lake Tahoe, I see forests of majestic pines,",
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   {
    "text": "Or crossing the great desert, the alkaline plains, I behold enchanting mirages of waters and meadows,",
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   {
    "text": "Marking through these and after all, in duplicate slender lines,",
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   {
    "text": "Bridging the three or four thousand miles of land travel,",
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   {
    "text": "Tying the Eastern to the Western sea,",
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    "text": "The road between Europe and Asia.",
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    "text": "(Ah Genoese thy dream! thy dream!",
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    "text": "Centuries after thou art laid in thy grave,",
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   {
    "text": "The shore thou foundest verifies thy dream.)",
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    "text": "Passage to India!",
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   {
    "text": "Struggles of many a captain, tales of many a sailor dead,",
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   {
    "text": "Over my mood stealing and spreading they come,",
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   {
    "text": "Like clouds and cloudlets in the unreach’d sky.",
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    "text": "Along all history, down the slopes,",
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   {
    "text": "As a rivulet running, sinking now, and now again to the surface rising,",
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    "text": "A ceaseless thought, a varied train⁠—lo, soul, to thee, thy sight, they rise,",
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   {
    "text": "The plans, the voyages again, the expeditions;",
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   {
    "text": "Again Vasco de Gama sails forth,",
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   {
    "text": "Again the knowledge gain’d, the mariner’s compass,",
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   {
    "text": "Lands found and nations born, thou born America,",
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   {
    "text": "For purpose vast, man’s long probation fill’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou rondure of the world at last accomplish’d.",
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    "text": "O vast Rondure, swimming in space,",
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   {
    "text": "Cover’d all over with visible power and beauty,",
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   {
    "text": "Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness,",
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   {
    "text": "Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless stars above,",
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   {
    "text": "Below, the manifold grass and waters, animals, mountains, trees,",
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    "text": "With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophetic intention,",
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   {
    "text": "Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.",
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    "text": "Down from the gardens of Asia descending radiating,",
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   {
    "text": "Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny after them,",
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   {
    "text": "Wandering, yearning, curious, with restless explorations,",
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   {
    "text": "With questionings, baffled, formless, feverish, with never-happy hearts,",
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   {
    "text": "With that sad incessant refrain, Wherefore unsatisfied soul? and Whither O mocking life?",
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    "text": "Ah who shall soothe these feverish children?",
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   {
    "text": "Who justify these restless explorations?",
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   {
    "text": "Who speak the secret of impassive earth?",
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   {
    "text": "Who bind it to us? what is this separate Nature so unnatural?",
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   {
    "text": "What is this earth to our affections? (unloving earth, without a throb to answer ours,",
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   {
    "text": "Cold earth, the place of graves.)",
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    "text": "Yet soul be sure the first intent remains, and shall be carried out,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Perhaps even now the time has arrived.",
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   {
    "text": "After the seas are all cross’d, (as they seem already cross’d,)",
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   {
    "text": "After the great captains and engineers have accomplish’d their work,",
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   {
    "text": "After the noble inventors, after the scientists, the chemist, the geologist, ethnologist,",
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   {
    "text": "Finally shall come the poet worthy that name,",
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   {
    "text": "The true son of God shall come singing his songs.",
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    "text": "Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified,",
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   {
    "text": "All these hearts as of fretted children shall be sooth’d,",
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   {
    "text": "All affection shall be fully responded to, the secret shall be told,",
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   {
    "text": "All these separations and gaps shall be taken up and hook’d and link’d together,",
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   {
    "text": "The whole earth, this cold, impassive, voiceless earth, shall be completely justified,",
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    "text": "Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish’d and compacted by the true son of God, the poet,",
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    "text": "(He shall indeed pass the straits and conquer the mountains,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He shall double the cape of Good Hope to some purpose,)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nature and Man shall be disjoin’d and diffused no more,",
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   {
    "text": "The true son of God shall absolutely fuse them.",
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    "text": "Year at whose wide-flung door I sing!",
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    "text": "Year of the purpose accomplish’d!",
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   {
    "text": "Year of the marriage of continents, climates and oceans!",
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   {
    "text": "(No mere doge of Venice now wedding the Adriatic,)",
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    "text": "I see O year in you the vast terraqueous globe given and giving all,",
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    "text": "Europe to Asia, Africa join’d, and they to the New World,",
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    "text": "The lands, geographies, dancing before you, holding a festival garland,",
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    "text": "As brides and bridegrooms hand in hand.",
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    "text": "Passage to India!",
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    "text": "Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man,",
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    "text": "The river Euphrates flowing, the past lit up again.",
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    "text": "Lo soul, the retrospect brought forward,",
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    "text": "The old, most populous, wealthiest of earth’s lands,",
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   {
    "text": "The streams of the Indus and the Ganges and their many affluents,",
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   {
    "text": "(I my shores of America walking to-day behold, resuming all,)",
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   {
    "text": "The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying,",
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   {
    "text": "On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia,",
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   {
    "text": "To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal,",
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   {
    "text": "The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes,",
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    "text": "Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha,",
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   {
    "text": "Central and southern empires and all their belongings, possessors,",
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   {
    "text": "The wars of Tamerlane, the reign of Aurungzebe,",
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   {
    "text": "The traders, rulers, explorers, Muslims, Venetians, Byzantium, the Arabs, Portuguese,",
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   {
    "text": "The first travelers famous yet, Marco Polo, Batouta the Moor,",
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   {
    "text": "Doubts to be solv’d, the map incognita, blanks to be fill’d,",
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   {
    "text": "The foot of man unstay’d, the hands never at rest,",
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    "text": "Thyself O soul that will not brook a challenge.",
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    "text": "The medieval navigators rise before me,",
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   {
    "text": "The world of 1492, with its awaken’d enterprise,",
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   {
    "text": "Something swelling in humanity now like the sap of the earth in spring,",
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   {
    "text": "The sunset splendor of chivalry declining.",
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    "text": "And who art thou sad shade?",
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   {
    "text": "Gigantic, visionary, thyself a visionary,",
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   {
    "text": "With majestic limbs and pious beaming eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "Spreading around with every look of thine a golden world,",
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   {
    "text": "Enhuing it with gorgeous hues.",
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  ],
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    "text": "As the chief histrion,",
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   {
    "text": "Down to the footlights walks in some great scena,",
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   {
    "text": "Dominating the rest I see the Admiral himself,",
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   {
    "text": "(History’s type of courage, action, faith,)",
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   {
    "text": "Behold him sail from Palos leading his little fleet,",
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   {
    "text": "His voyage behold, his return, his great fame,",
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   {
    "text": "His misfortunes, calumniators, behold him a prisoner, chain’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Behold his dejection, poverty, death.",
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    "text": "(Curious in time I stand, noting the efforts of heroes,",
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   {
    "text": "Is the deferment long? bitter the slander, poverty, death?",
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   {
    "text": "Lies the seed unreck’d for centuries in the ground? lo, to God’s due occasion,",
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   {
    "text": "Uprising in the night, it sprouts, blooms,",
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   {
    "text": "And fills the earth with use and beauty.)",
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    "text": "Passage indeed O soul to primal thought,",
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   {
    "text": "Not lands and seas alone, thy own clear freshness,",
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   {
    "text": "The young maturity of brood and bloom,",
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   {
    "text": "To realms of budding bibles.",
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    "text": "O soul, repressless, I with thee and thou with me,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy circumnavigation of the world begin,",
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   {
    "text": "Of man, the voyage of his mind’s return,",
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   {
    "text": "To reason’s early paradise,",
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   {
    "text": "Back, back to wisdom’s birth, to innocent intuitions,",
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   {
    "text": "Again with fair creation.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "O we can wait no longer,",
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   {
    "text": "We too take ship O soul,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas,",
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   {
    "text": "Fearless for unknown shores on waves of ecstasy to sail,",
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   {
    "text": "Amid the wafting winds, (thou pressing me to thee, I thee to me, O soul,)",
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   {
    "text": "Caroling free, singing our song of God,",
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   {
    "text": "Chanting our chant of pleasant exploration.",
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   {
    "text": "With laugh and many a kiss,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(Let others deprecate, let others weep for sin, remorse, humiliation,)",
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   {
    "text": "O soul thou pleasest me, I thee.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Ah more than any priest O soul we too believe in God,",
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   {
    "text": "But with the mystery of God we dare not dally.",
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    "text": "O soul thou pleasest me, I thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Sailing these seas or on the hills, or waking in the night,",
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   {
    "text": "Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and Death, like waters flowing,",
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   {
    "text": "Bear me indeed as through the regions infinite,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose air I breathe, whose ripples hear, lave me all over,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Bathe me O God in thee, mounting to thee,",
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   {
    "text": "I and my soul to range in range of thee.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "O Thou transcendent,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nameless, the fibre and the breath,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Light of the light, shedding forth universes, thou centre of them,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Thou mightier centre of the true, the good, the loving,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Thou moral, spiritual fountain⁠—affection’s source⁠—thou reservoir,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(O pensive soul of me⁠—O thirst unsatisfied⁠—waitest not there?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Waitest not haply for us somewhere there the Comrade perfect?)",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Thou pulse⁠—thou motive of the stars, suns, systems,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That, circling, move in order, safe, harmonious,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Athwart the shapeless vastnesses of space,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "How should I think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if, out of myself,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I could not launch, to those, superior universes?",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At Nature and its wonders, Time and Space and Death,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But that I, turning, call to thee O soul, thou actual Me,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And lo, thou gently masterest the orbs,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Thou matest Time, smilest content at Death,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And fillest, swellest full the vastnesses of Space.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Greater than stars or suns,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Bounding O soul thou journeyest forth;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "What love than thine and ours could wider amplify?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "What aspirations, wishes, outvie thine and ours O soul?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "What dreams of the ideal? what plans of purity, perfection, strength,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "What cheerful willingness for others’ sake to give up all?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For others’ sake to suffer all?",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Reckoning ahead O soul, when thou, the time achiev’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The seas all cross’d, weather’d the capes, the voyage done,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Surrounded, copest, frontest God, yieldest, the aim attain’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As fill’d with friendship, love complete, the Elder Brother found,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The Younger melts in fondness in his arms.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Passage to more than India!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Are thy wings plumed indeed for such far flights?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Disportest thou on waters such as those?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Soundest below the Sanskrit and the Vedas?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Then have thy bent unleash’d.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Passage to you, your shores, ye aged fierce enigmas!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Passage to you, to mastership of you, ye strangling problems!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "You, strew’d with the wrecks of skeletons, that, living, never reach’d you.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Passage to more than India!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O secret of the earth and sky!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of you O waters of the sea! O winding creeks and rivers!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of you O woods and fields! of you strong mountains of my land!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of you O prairies! of you gray rocks!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O morning red! O clouds! O rain and snows!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O day and night, passage to you!",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O sun and moon and all you stars! Sirius and Jupiter!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Passage to you!",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Cut the hawsers⁠—haul out⁠—shake out every sail!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Have we not grovel’d here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Have we not darken’d and dazed ourselves with books long enough?",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Sail forth⁠—steer for the deep waters only,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O my brave soul!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O farther farther sail!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O farther, farther, farther sail!",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ]
 ]
}