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    "text": "Father, our bosoms, dark and drear,",
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    "text": "Cast out our Legion; cleanse thy room.",
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    "text": "But not to leave it bare;",
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    "text": "His light will cleanse the eyes to see,",
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    "text": "Open the ears to hear;",
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    "text": "And so the house prepared for thee,",
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    "text": "When thou com’st to thy place;",
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