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 "title": "The Hidden Ones",
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 "poet": "John Henry Newman",
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 "book": "Verses on Various Occasions",
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  "venue": "Verses on Various Occasions (1903)",
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    "text": "Hid are the saints of God;⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Uncertified by high angelic sign;",
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   {
    "text": "Nor raiment soft, nor empire’s golden rod",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Marks them divine.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Theirs but the unbought air, earth’s parent sod,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the sun’s smile benign;⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Christ rears His throne within the secret heart,",
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   {
    "text": "From the haughty world apart.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "They gleam amid the night,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Chill sluggish mists stifling the heavenly ray;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fame chants the while⁠—old history trims his light,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Aping the day;",
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   {
    "text": "In vain! staid look, loud voice, and reason’s might",
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   {
    "text": "Forcing its learned way,",
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   {
    "text": "Blind characters! these aid us not to trace",
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   {
    "text": "Christ and His princely race.",
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   {
    "text": "Yet not all-hid from those",
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   {
    "text": "Who watch to see;⁠—’neath their dull guise of earth,",
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    "text": "Bright bursting gleams unwittingly disclose",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their heaven-wrought birth.",
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   {
    "text": "Meekness, love, patience, faith’s serene repose;",
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   {
    "text": "And the soul’s tutor’d mirth,",
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   {
    "text": "Bidding the slow heart dance, to prove her power",
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   {
    "text": "O’er self in its proud hour.",
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   {
    "text": "These are the chosen few,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The remnant fruit of largely-scatter’d grace,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "God sows in waste, to reap whom He foreknew",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of man’s cold race;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Counting on wills perverse, in His clear view",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of boundless time and space,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He waits, by scant return for treasures given,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To fill the thrones of heaven.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Lord! who can trace but Thou",
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   {
    "text": "The strife obscure, ’twixt sin’s soul-thralling spell",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And Thy keen Spirit, now quench’d, reviving now?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or who can tell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why pardon’s seal stands sure on David’s brow,",
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   {
    "text": "Why Saul and Demas fell?",
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   {
    "text": "Oh! lest our frail hearts in the annealing break,",
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   {
    "text": "Help, for Thy mercy’s sake!",
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