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    "text": "O God, whose daylight leadeth down",
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    "text": "Into the sunless way,",
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    "text": "Who with restoring sleep dost crown",
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    "text": "The labour of the day!",
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    "text": "What I have done, Lord, make it clean",
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   {
    "text": "With thy forgiveness dear;",
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    "text": "That so to-day what might have been,",
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    "text": "And when my thought is all astray,",
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    "text": "Yet think thou on in me;",
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    "text": "That with the new-born innocent day",
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    "text": "My soul rise fresh and free.",
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    "text": "Through dreams that mock and flee;",
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    "text": "But even in visions of the brain,",
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