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    "text": "When I beheld the splendour of the night,",
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    "text": "I marvelled that the glory of God’s birth",
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    "text": "Infinite condescension, that could raise",
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    "text": "The least to be most blessed. God can bring",
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    "text": "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings praise.",
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    "text": "This late-born infant of the sky shall sing",
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    "text": "A music sweeter than her sister spheres;",
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