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    "text": "Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom",
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    "text": "Lead Thou me on!",
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    "text": "The night is dark, and I am far from home⁠—",
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    "text": "Lead Thou me on!",
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    "text": "Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see",
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    "text": "The distant scene⁠—one step enough for me.",
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    "text": "I was not ever thus, nor pray’d that Thou",
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    "text": "Shouldst lead me on.",
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   {
    "text": "I loved to choose and see my path, but now",
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    "text": "Lead Thou me on!",
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   {
    "text": "I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,",
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    "text": "Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.",
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    "text": "So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still",
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    "text": "Will lead me on,",
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    "text": "O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrent, till",
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    "text": "The night is gone;",
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    "text": "And with the morn those angel faces smile",
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    "text": "Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.",
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