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 "title": "Lauds⁠—Tuesday",
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    "text": "Day’s herald bird",
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   {
    "text": "At length is heard,",
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   {
    "text": "Telling its morning torch is lit,",
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    "text": "And small and still",
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    "text": "Christ’s accents thrill,",
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    "text": "Within the heart rekindling it.",
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    "text": "Away, He cries,",
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    "text": "With languid eyes,",
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    "text": "And sickly slumbers profitless!",
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   {
    "text": "I am at hand,",
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    "text": "As watchers stand,",
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    "text": "In awe, and truth, and holiness.",
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    "text": "He will appear",
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    "text": "The hearts to cheer",
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    "text": "Of suppliants pale and abstinent",
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    "text": "Who cannot sleep",
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    "text": "Because they weep",
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    "text": "With holy grief and violent.",
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    "text": "Keep us awake,",
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   {
    "text": "The fetters break,",
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    "text": "Jesu! which night has forged for us;",
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    "text": "Yea, melt the night",
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    "text": "To sinless light,",
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    "text": "Till all is bright and glorious.",
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    "text": "To Father, Son,",
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    "text": "And Spirit, One,",
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    "text": "To the Most Holy Trinity,",
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    "text": "All praise be given",
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    "text": "In Earth and Heaven,",
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    "text": "Now, as of old, and endlessly.",
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