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   {
    "text": "Thy wisdom and Thy might appear,",
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   {
    "text": "Eternal God, through every year;",
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   {
    "text": "From day to day, from hour to hour,",
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    "text": "Thy works reveal self-ordered power.",
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   {
    "text": "We worship Thee whose will hath laid",
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   {
    "text": "Thy sovereign rule on all things made;",
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   {
    "text": "The faithful stars, the fruitful earth,",
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    "text": "Obey Thy laws that gave them birth.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Yet Thou canst make a marvel shine",
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   {
    "text": "Amid these mighty laws of Thine.",
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    "text": "As when Thy servant Moses came",
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    "text": "And saw the bush with Thee aflame.",
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    "text": "We turn aside and tread the ways",
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    "text": "That lead through wonder up to praise;",
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   {
    "text": "Wherever Thou by man art found",
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    "text": "The homely earth is holy ground.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "If Thou hast formed us out of dust",
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    "text": "Through ages long⁠—in Thee we trust;",
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   {
    "text": "O grant us in our souls to see",
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   {
    "text": "The living flame that comes from Thee.",
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