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    "text": "This is the thanksgiving of the weary,",
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    "text": "The song of him that is ready to rest.",
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    "text": "It is good to be glad when the day is declining,",
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    "text": "And the setting of the sun is like a word of peace.",
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    "text": "The stars look kindly on the close of a journey,",
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    "text": "The tent says welcome when the day’s march is done.",
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    "text": "For now is the time of the laying down of burdens,",
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    "text": "And the cool hour cometh to them that have borne the heat.",
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    "text": "I have rejoiced greatly in labour and adventure;",
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    "text": "My heart hath been enlarged in the spending of my strength.",
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    "text": "Now it is all gone, yet I am not impoverished,",
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   {
    "text": "For thus only I inherit the treasure of repose.",
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   {
    "text": "Blessed be the Lord that teacheth my fingers to loosen,",
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    "text": "And cooleth my feet with water after the dust of the way.",
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    "text": "Blessed be the Lord that giveth me hunger at nightfall,",
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    "text": "And filleth my evening cup with the wine of good cheer.",
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   {
    "text": "Blessed be the Lord that maketh me happy to be quiet,",
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    "text": "Even as a child that cometh softly to his mother’s lap.",
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    "text": "O God, thy strength is never worn away with labour:",
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    "text": "But it is good for us to be weary and receive thy gift of rest.",
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