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 "title": "St. Philip in His God",
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    "text": "Philip, on thee the glowing ray",
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    "text": "Of heaven came down upon thy prayer,",
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    "text": "All that of earthly dross was there.",
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    "text": "Thy soul became as purest glass,",
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    "text": "Through which the Brightness Incarnate",
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    "text": "And so, on Philip when we gaze,",
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    "text": "We see the image of his Lord;",
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    "text": "The Saint dissolves amid the blaze",
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    "text": "Which circles round the Living Word.",
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    "text": "The Meek, the Wise, none else is here,",
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    "text": "Dispensing light to men below;",
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    "text": "His awful accents fill the ear,",
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    "text": "As snow, those inward pleadings fall,",
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    "text": "With gentle weight and gradual,",
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    "text": "And sink into the feverish soul.",
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    "text": "The Sinless One, He comes to seek,",
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    "text": "The dreary heart, the spirit lone,",
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    "text": "Tender of natures proud or weak,",
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    "text": "Not less than if they were His own.",
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    "text": "He takes and scans the sinner o’er,",
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    "text": "Handling His scholars one by one,",
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    "text": "Weighing what they can bear, before",
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    "text": "He gives the penance to be done.",
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    "text": "Jesu, to Philip’s sons reveal",
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    "text": "That gentlest wisdom from above,",
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    "text": "To spread compassion o’er their zeal,",
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    "text": "And mingle patience with their love.",
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