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    "text": "O Lord of life, thy quickening voice",
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   {
    "text": "Awakes my morning song!",
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   {
    "text": "In gladsome words I would rejoice",
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   {
    "text": "That I to thee belong.",
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    "text": "I see thy light, I feel thy wind;",
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   {
    "text": "The world, it is thy word;",
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    "text": "Whatever wakes my heart and mind,",
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    "text": "Thy presence is, my Lord.",
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    "text": "The living soul which I call me",
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    "text": "Doth love, and long to know;",
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    "text": "It is a thought of living thee,",
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    "text": "Nor forth of thee can go.",
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    "text": "Therefore I choose my highest part,",
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    "text": "And turn my face to thee;",
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    "text": "Therefore I stir my inmost heart",
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    "text": "To worship fervently.",
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    "text": "Lord, let me live and will this day⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Keep rising from the dead;",
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   {
    "text": "Lord, make my spirit good and gay⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Give me my daily bread.",
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    "text": "Within my heart, speak, Lord, speak on,",
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   {
    "text": "My heart alive to keep,",
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   {
    "text": "Till comes the night, and, labour done,",
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    "text": "In thee I fall asleep.",
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