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    "text": "Creator of the starry pole,",
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    "text": "Saviour of all who live,",
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    "text": "And light of every faithful soul,",
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    "text": "Jesu, these prayers receive.",
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    "text": "Who sooner than our foe malign",
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    "text": "Should triumph, from above",
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    "text": "Didst come, to be the medicine",
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    "text": "Of a sick world, in love;",
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    "text": "And the deep wounds to cleanse and cure",
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    "text": "Of a whole race, didst go,",
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    "text": "Pure Victim, from a Virgin pure,",
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    "text": "The bitter Cross unto.",
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    "text": "Who hast a Name, and hast a Power,",
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    "text": "The height and depth to sway,",
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    "text": "And Angels bow, and devils cower,",
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    "text": "Thou too shalt be our Judge at length;",
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    "text": "Lord, in Thy grace bestow",
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    "text": "Thy weapons of celestial strength,",
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    "text": "And snatch us from the foe.",
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    "text": "Honour and glory, power and praise,",
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    "text": "To Father, and to Son,",
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    "text": "And Holy Ghost, be paid always,",
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    "text": "The Eternal Three in One.",
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