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 "title": "Hymn of Joy",
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 "subtitle": "To the Music of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony",
 "poet": "Henry van Dyke Jr.",
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  "year": 1920,
  "venue": "The Poems of Henry Van Dyke (1920)",
  "note": "Taken from the 1920 collected edition. That is the printing this text comes from, not the poem's first appearance: the volume gathers work published from 1897 onward, and which earlier book or magazine printed this poem first has not been established here.",
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    "text": "Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee,",
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   {
    "text": "God of glory, Lord of love;",
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   {
    "text": "Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Praising Thee their sun above.",
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   {
    "text": "Melt the clouds of sin and sadness;",
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   {
    "text": "Drive the dark of doubt away;",
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   {
    "text": "Giver of immortal gladness,",
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   {
    "text": "Fill us with the light of day!",
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   {
    "text": "All Thy works with joy surround Thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Earth and heaven reflect Thy rays,",
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   {
    "text": "Stars and angels sing around Thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Centre of unbroken praise:",
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   {
    "text": "Field and forest, vale and mountain,",
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   {
    "text": "Blooming meadow, flashing sea,",
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   {
    "text": "Chanting bird and flowing fountain,",
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   {
    "text": "Call us to rejoice in Thee.",
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   {
    "text": "Thou art giving and forgiving,",
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   {
    "text": "Ever blessing, ever blest,",
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   {
    "text": "Well-spring of the joy of living,",
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   {
    "text": "Ocean-depth of happy rest!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou our Father, Christ our Brother⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "All who live in love are Thine:",
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   {
    "text": "Teach us how to love each other,",
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   {
    "text": "Lift us to the Joy Divine.",
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    "text": "Mortals join the mighty chorus,",
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   {
    "text": "Which the morning stars began;",
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   {
    "text": "Father-love is reigning o’er us,",
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   {
    "text": "Brother-love binds man to man.",
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   {
    "text": "Ever singing march we onward,",
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   {
    "text": "Victors in the midst of strife;",
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   {
    "text": "Joyful music lifts us sunward",
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   {
    "text": "In the triumph song of life.",
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