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 "title": "Thanksgiving",
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 "poet": "John Henry Newman",
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    "text": "Lord, in this dust Thy sovereign voice",
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   {
    "text": "First quicken’d love divine;",
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   {
    "text": "I am all Thine⁠—Thy care and choice,",
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   {
    "text": "My very praise is Thine.",
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    "text": "I praise Thee, while Thy providence",
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   {
    "text": "In childhood frail I trace,",
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   {
    "text": "For blessings given, ere dawning sense",
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    "text": "Could seek or scan Thy grace;",
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   {
    "text": "Blessings in boyhood’s marvelling hour,",
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    "text": "Bright dreams, and fancyings strange;",
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   {
    "text": "Blessings, when reason’s awful power",
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    "text": "Gave thought a bolder range;",
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    "text": "Blessings of friends, which to my door",
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    "text": "Unask’d, unhoped, have come;",
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    "text": "And, choicer still, a countless store",
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    "text": "Of eager smiles at home.",
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    "text": "Yet, Lord, in memory’s fondest place",
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    "text": "I shrine those seasons sad,",
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   {
    "text": "When, looking up, I saw Thy face",
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    "text": "In kind austereness clad.",
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   {
    "text": "I would not miss one sigh or tear,",
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   {
    "text": "Heart-pang, or throbbing brow;",
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   {
    "text": "Sweet was the chastisement severe,",
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    "text": "And sweet its memory now.",
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    "text": "Yes! let the fragrant scars abide,",
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    "text": "Love-tokens in Thy stead,",
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    "text": "Faint shadows of the spear-pierced side",
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    "text": "And thorn-encompass’d head.",
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   {
    "text": "And such Thy tender force be still,",
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   {
    "text": "When self would swerve or stray,",
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   {
    "text": "Shaping to truth the froward will",
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    "text": "Along Thy narrow way.",
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   {
    "text": "Deny me wealth; far, far remove",
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   {
    "text": "The lure of power or name;",
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   {
    "text": "Hope thrives in straits, in weakness love,",
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    "text": "And faith in this world’s shame.",
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