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    "text": "The sun is sinking in the west,",
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    "text": "Long grow the shadows dim;",
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   {
    "text": "Have patience, sister, to be blest,",
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   {
    "text": "Wait patiently for Him.",
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    "text": "Thou knowest love, much love hast had,",
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    "text": "Great things of love mayst tell,",
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    "text": "Ought’st never to be very sad",
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    "text": "For thou too hast lov’d well.",
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    "text": "His house thou know’st, who on the brink",
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    "text": "Of death loved more than thou,",
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    "text": "Loved more than thy great heart can think,",
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    "text": "And just as then loves now⁠—",
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    "text": "In that great house is one who waits",
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    "text": "For thy slow-coming foot;",
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    "text": "Glad is he with his angel-mates",
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    "text": "Yet often listens mute,",
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    "text": "For he of all men loves thee best:",
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    "text": "He haunts the heavenly clock;",
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    "text": "Ah, he has long been up and drest",
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    "text": "To open to thy knock!",
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    "text": "Fear not, doubt not because of those",
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    "text": "On whom earth’s keen winds blow;",
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    "text": "God’s love shames all our pitying woes,",
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    "text": "Be ready thou to go.",
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    "text": "Forsaken dream not hearts which here",
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    "text": "Bask in no sunny shine;",
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    "text": "Each shall one coming day be dear",
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    "text": "To love as good as thine.",
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