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 "title": "St. Gregory Nazianzen",
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   {
    "text": "Peace-loving man, of humble heart and true",
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   {
    "text": "What dost thou here?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fierce is the city’s crowd; the lordly few",
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   {
    "text": "Are dull of ear!",
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   {
    "text": "Sore pain it was to thee⁠—till thou didst quit",
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    "text": "Thy patriarch-throne at length, as though for power unfit.",
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    "text": "So works the All-wise! our services dividing",
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   {
    "text": "Not as we ask:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For the world’s profit, by our gifts deciding",
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   {
    "text": "Our duty-task.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "See in king’s courts loth Jeremias plead;",
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    "text": "And slow-tongued Moses rule by eloquence of deed!",
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    "text": "Yes! thou, bright Angel of the East! didst rear",
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    "text": "The Cross divine,",
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    "text": "Borne high upon thy liquid accents, where",
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   {
    "text": "Men mock’d the Sign;",
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    "text": "Till that cold city heard thy battle-cry,",
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    "text": "And hearts were stirr’d, and deem’d a Pentecost was nigh.",
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    "text": "Thou couldst a people raise, but couldst not rule:⁠—",
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    "text": "So, gentle one,",
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   {
    "text": "Heaven set thee free⁠—for, ere thy years were full,",
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    "text": "Thy work was done;",
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    "text": "According thee the lot thou lovedst best,",
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    "text": "To muse upon the past⁠—to serve, yet be at rest.",
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