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    "text": "O Thou, of shepherds Prince and Head,",
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    "text": "Now on a Bishop’s festal-day",
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    "text": "Thy flock to many a shrine have sped",
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    "text": "He to the high and dreadful throne",
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    "text": "Urged by no false inspirings, prest,",
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    "text": "Nor on hot daring of his own,",
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    "text": "But Thy behest.",
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    "text": "And so, that soldier good and tried,",
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    "text": "From the full horn of heavenly grace,",
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    "text": "Thy Spirit did anoint, to guide",
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    "text": "Thy ransom’d race.",
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    "text": "And he becomes a father true,",
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    "text": "Spending and spent, when troubles fall,",
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    "text": "A pattern and a servant too,",
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    "text": "All things to all.",
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    "text": "His pleading sets the sinner free,",
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    "text": "He soothes the sick, he lifts the low,",
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    "text": "Powerful in word, deep teacher, he,",
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    "text": "Grant us, O Christ, his prayers above,",
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    "text": "And grace below to sing Thy praise,",
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    "text": "The Father’s power, the Spirit’s love,",
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