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 "title": "St. Philip in Himself",
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 "poet": "John Henry Newman",
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    "text": "The holy Monks, conceal’d from men,",
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    "text": "In midnight choir, or studious cell,",
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    "text": "In sultry field, or wintry glen,",
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    "text": "The holy Monks, I love them well.",
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    "text": "The Friars too, the zealous band",
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    "text": "By Dominic or Francis led,",
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    "text": "They gather, and they take their stand",
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    "text": "Where foes are fierce, or friends have fled.",
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    "text": "And then the unwearied Company,",
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    "text": "Which bears the Name of Sacred might,",
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    "text": "The Knights of Jesus, they defy",
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    "text": "The fiend⁠—full eager for the fight.",
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    "text": "Yet there is one I more affect",
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    "text": "Than Jesuit, Hermit, Monk, or Friar,",
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    "text": "’Tis an old man of sweet aspèct,",
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    "text": "I love him more, I more admire.",
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    "text": "I know him by his head of snow,",
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    "text": "His ready smile, his keen full eye,",
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    "text": "His words which kindle as they flow,",
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    "text": "Save he be rapt in ecstasy.",
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    "text": "He lifts his hands, there issues forth",
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    "text": "A fragrance virginal and rare,",
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    "text": "And now he ventures to our North,",
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    "text": "Where hearts are frozen as the air.",
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    "text": "He comes, by grace of his address,",
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    "text": "By the sweet music of his face,",
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    "text": "And his low tones of tenderness,",
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    "text": "To melt a noble, stubborn race.",
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    "text": "O sainted Philip, Father dear,",
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    "text": "Look on thy little ones, that we",
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   {
    "text": "Thy loveliness may copy here,",
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   {
    "text": "And in the eternal Kingdom see.",
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