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 "title": "Lauds⁠—Sunday",
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 "poet": "John Henry Newman",
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    "text": "Framer of the earth and sky,",
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    "text": "Ruler of the day and night,",
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    "text": "With a glad variety,",
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    "text": "Tempering all, and making light;",
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    "text": "Gleams upon our dark path flinging,",
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    "text": "Cutting short each night begun,",
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    "text": "Hark! for chanticleer is singing,",
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    "text": "Hark! he chides the lingering sun.",
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    "text": "And the morning star replies,",
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    "text": "And lets loose the imprison’d day;",
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    "text": "And the godless bandit flies",
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    "text": "Shrill it sounds, the storm relenting",
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    "text": "Soothes the weary seaman’s ears;",
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    "text": "Once it wrought a great repenting,",
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    "text": "In that flood of Peter’s tears.",
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    "text": "Rouse we; let the blithesome cry",
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    "text": "Of that bird our hearts awaken;",
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    "text": "Chide the slumberers as they lie,",
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    "text": "And arrest the sin-o’ertaken.",
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    "text": "Hope and health are in his strain,",
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    "text": "To the fearful and the ailing;",
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    "text": "Murder sheathes his blade profane,",
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    "text": "Faith revives when faith was failing.",
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    "text": "Jesu, Master! when we sin,",
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    "text": "Turn on us Thy healing face;",
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    "text": "It will melt the offence within",
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    "text": "Into penitential grace:",
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    "text": "Beam on our bewilder’d mind,",
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    "text": "Till its dreamy shadows flee;",
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   {
    "text": "Stones cry out where Thou hast shined,",
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   {
    "text": "Jesu! musical with Thee.",
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    "text": "To the Father and the Son,",
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    "text": "And the Spirit, who in Heaven",
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    "text": "Ever witness, Three and One,",
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    "text": "Praise on Earth be ever given.",
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