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    "text": "In the far North our lot is cast,",
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    "text": "Where faithful hearts are few;",
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    "text": "Still are we Philip’s children dear,",
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    "text": "And Peter’s soldiers true.",
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    "text": "Founder and Sire! to mighty Rome,",
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    "text": "Beneath St. Peter’s shade,",
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    "text": "Early thy vow of loyal love",
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    "text": "And ministry was paid.",
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    "text": "The solemn porch, and portal high,",
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    "text": "Of Peter was thy home;",
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    "text": "The world’s Apostle he, and thou",
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    "text": "Apostle of his Rome.",
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    "text": "And first in the old catacombs,",
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    "text": "Where martyr Popes had ruled the flock,",
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    "text": "There didst thou pass the nights in prayer,",
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    "text": "Until at length there came,",
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    "text": "Down on thy breast, new lit for thee,",
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    "text": "The Pentecostal flame;⁠—",
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    "text": "Then, in that heart-consuming love,",
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    "text": "Didst walk the city wide,",
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    "text": "And lure the noble and the young",
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    "text": "From Babel’s pomp and pride;",
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    "text": "And, gathering them within thy cell,",
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    "text": "Unveil the lustre bright,",
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    "text": "And beauty of thy inner soul,",
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    "text": "And gain them by the sight.",
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    "text": "And thus to Rome, for Peter’s faith",
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    "text": "Far known, thou didst impart",
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    "text": "Thy lessons of the hidden life,",
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    "text": "And discipline of heart.",
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    "text": "And as the Apostle, on the hill",
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    "text": "Facing the Imperial Town,",
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    "text": "First gazed upon his fair domain,",
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    "text": "Then on the cross lay down,",
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    "text": "So thou, from out the streets of Rome",
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    "text": "Unto that mount of martyrdom,",
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    "text": "Take leave of it, and die.",
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