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  "text": "Into this wilde Abyss,\n\nThe Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,\n\nOf neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,\n\nBut all these in thir pregnant causes mixt\n\nConfus'dly, and which thus must ever fight,\n\nUnless th' Almighty Maker them ordain\n\nHis dark materials to create more Worlds,\n\nInto this wilde Abyss the warie fiend\n\nStood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,\n\nPondering his Voyage.",
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