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    "text": "Unveil, O Lord, and on us shine",
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   {
    "text": "In glory and in grace;",
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    "text": "This gaudy world grows pale before",
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    "text": "The beauty of Thy face.",
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    "text": "Till Thou art seen, it seems to be",
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    "text": "A sort of fairy ground,",
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    "text": "Where suns unsetting light the sky,",
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    "text": "And flowers and fruits abound.",
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    "text": "But when Thy keener, purer beam",
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    "text": "Is pour’d upon our sight,",
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    "text": "It loses all its power to charm,",
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    "text": "And what was day is night.",
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    "text": "Its noblest toils are then the scourge",
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    "text": "Which made Thy blood to flow;",
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    "text": "Its joys are but the treacherous thorns",
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    "text": "Which circled round Thy brow.",
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    "text": "And thus, when we renounce for Thee",
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    "text": "Its restless aims and fears,",
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    "text": "The tender memories of the past,",
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    "text": "The hopes of coming years,",
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    "text": "Poor is our sacrifice, whose eyes",
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    "text": "Are lighted from above;",
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    "text": "We offer what we cannot keep,",
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    "text": "What we have ceased to love.",
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