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  "text": "My sentence is for open War; Of Wiles,\n\nMore unexpert, I boast not: them let those\n\nContrive who need, or when they need, not now.\n\nFor while they sit contriving, shall the rest,\n\nMillions that stand in Arms, and longing wait\n\nThe Signal to ascend, sit ling'ring here,\n\nHeav'n's fugitives, and for their dwelling place\n\nAccept this dark opprobrious Den of shame,\n\nThe Prison of his Tyranny who Reigns\n\nBy our delay? no, let us rather choose,\n\nArm'd with Hell flames and fury all at once\n\nO'er Heaven's high Tow'rs to force resistless way,\n\nTurning our Tortures into horrid Arms\n\nAgainst the Torturer.",
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