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    "text": "Daylight fades away.",
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   {
    "text": "Is the Lord at hand",
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    "text": "In the shadows gray",
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    "text": "Stealing on the land?",
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    "text": "Gently from the east",
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    "text": "Come the shadows gray;",
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    "text": "But our lowly priest",
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    "text": "Nearer is than they.",
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    "text": "It is darkness quite.",
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    "text": "Is the Lord at hand,",
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    "text": "In the cloak of night",
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    "text": "Stolen upon the land?",
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    "text": "But I see no night,",
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    "text": "For my Lord is here",
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    "text": "With him dark is light,",
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    "text": "With him far is near.",
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    "text": "List! the cock’s awake.",
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    "text": "Is the Lord at hand?",
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    "text": "Cometh he to make",
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    "text": "Light in all the land?",
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    "text": "Long ago he made",
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    "text": "Morning in my heart;",
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    "text": "Long ago he bade",
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    "text": "Shadowy things depart.",
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    "text": "Lo, the dawning hill!",
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    "text": "Is the Lord at hand,",
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    "text": "Come to scatter ill,",
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    "text": "Ruling in the land?",
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    "text": "He hath scattered ill,",
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   {
    "text": "Ruling in my mind;",
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    "text": "Growing to his will,",
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    "text": "Freedom comes, I find.",
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    "text": "We will watch all day,",
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    "text": "Lest the Lord should come;",
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    "text": "All night waking stay",
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    "text": "In the darkness dumb.",
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    "text": "I will work all day,",
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    "text": "For the Lord hath come;",
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    "text": "Down my head will lay",
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    "text": "For we know not when",
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    "text": "Christ may be at hand;",
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    "text": "For I know that where",
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    "text": "Christ hath come again,",
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    "text": "Quietness without care",
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    "text": "Dwelleth in his men.",
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