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    "text": "Son, first-born, at home abiding!",
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    "text": "All without is cold and bare:",
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    "text": "Hide me from the tempest’s chiding",
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    "text": "Warm beside the Father’s chair.",
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    "text": "I am homesick, Lord of splendour!",
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    "text": "Twilight fills my soul with fright:",
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    "text": "Let thy countenance befriend her,",
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    "text": "I am homesick, loving Father!",
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    "text": "Long years hath the pain increased:",
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    "text": "Soon, oh soon! thy children gather",
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    "text": "To the endless marriage-feast.",
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