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  "text": "On heav'nly ground they stood, and from the shore\n\nThey view'd the vast immeasurable Abyss\n\nOutrageous as a Sea, dark, wasteful, wilde,\n\nUp from the bottom turn'd by furious windes\n\nAnd surging waves, as Mountains to assault\n\nHeav'ns highth, and with the Center mix the Pole.\n\n\"Silence, ye troubl'd waves, and thou Deep, peace!\"\n\nSaid then th' Omnific Word, \"Your discord end!\"\n\nNor staid, but on the Wings of Cherubim\n\nUplifted, in Paternal Glorie rode\n\nFarr into Chaos, and the World unborn;\n\nFor Chaos heard his voice: him all his Traine\n\nFollow'd in bright procession to behold\n\nCreation, and the wonders of his might.\n\nThen staid the fervid Wheeles, and in his hand\n\nHe took the golden Compasses, prepar'd\n\nIn Gods Eternal store, to circumscribe\n\nThis Universe, and all created things:\n\nOne foot he center'd, and the other turn'd\n\nRound through the vast profunditie obscure,\n\nAnd said, \"Thus farr extend, thus farr thy bounds,\n\nThis be thy just Circumference, O World!\"",
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      "text": "So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd\n\nHis nostril wide into the murky air,\n\nSagacious of his quarry from so far.",
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