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    "text": "Now that the day-star glimmers bright,",
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    "text": "We suppliantly pray",
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    "text": "No sinful word, nor deed of wrong,",
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    "text": "And, while the hours in order flow,",
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    "text": "O Christ, securely fence",
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    "text": "Our gates, beleaguer’d by the foe⁠—",
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    "text": "And grant that to Thine honour, Lord,",
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    "text": "Our daily toil may tend;",
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    "text": "That we begin it at Thy word,",
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    "text": "And, lest the flesh in its excess",
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    "text": "To God the Father glory be,",
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    "text": "And to His Only Son,",
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    "text": "And to the Spirit, One and Three,",
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    "text": "While endless ages run.",
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