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 "title": "Lauds⁠—Wednesday",
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    "text": "Haunting gloom and flitting shades,",
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   {
    "text": "Ghastly shapes, away!",
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    "text": "Christ is rising, and pervades",
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    "text": "Highest Heaven with day.",
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    "text": "He with His bright spear the night",
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    "text": "Of a thousand hues.",
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    "text": "Thee, O Christ, and Thee alone,",
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    "text": "With a single mind,",
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    "text": "We with chant and plaint would own:",
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    "text": "To Thy flock be kind.",
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    "text": "Much it needs Thy light divine,",
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    "text": "Spot and stain to clean;",
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    "text": "Light of Angels, on us shine",
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    "text": "With Thy face serene.",
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    "text": "To the Father, and the Son,",
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    "text": "And the Holy Ghost,",
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