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 "title": "Matins⁠—Friday",
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   {
    "text": "May the dread Three in One, who sways",
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   {
    "text": "All with His sovereign might,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Accept us for this hymn of praise,",
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   {
    "text": "His watchers in the night.",
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    "text": "For in the night, when all is still",
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   {
    "text": "We spurn our bed and rise,",
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   {
    "text": "To find the balm for ghostly ill,",
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   {
    "text": "His bounteous hand supplies.",
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    "text": "If e’er by night our envious foe",
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   {
    "text": "With guilt our souls would stain,",
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   {
    "text": "May the deep streams of mercy flow,",
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   {
    "text": "And make us white again;",
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  ],
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    "text": "That so with bodies braced and bright,",
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   {
    "text": "And hearts awake within,",
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    "text": "All fresh and keen may burn our light,",
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    "text": "Undimm’d, unsoil’d by sin.",
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   {
    "text": "Shine on Thine own, Redeemer sweet!",
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   {
    "text": "Thy radiance increate",
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   {
    "text": "Through the long day shall keep our feet",
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   {
    "text": "In their pure morning state.",
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   {
    "text": "Grant this, O Father, etc.",
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