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 "title": "Vespers⁠—Friday",
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    "text": "Whom all obey⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Maker of man! who from Thy height",
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    "text": "All creeping things, and the fierce might",
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    "text": "Of beasts of prey;⁠—",
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    "text": "And the huge make",
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    "text": "Of wild or gentler animal,",
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    "text": "Springing from nothing at Thy call,",
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    "text": "To serve in their due time, and all",
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    "text": "For sinners’ sake;",
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    "text": "Shield us from ill!",
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    "text": "Come it by passion’s sudden stress,",
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    "text": "Lurk in our mind’s habitual dress,",
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    "text": "Or through our actions seek to press",
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    "text": "Upon our will.",
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    "text": "Vouchsafe the prize",
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    "text": "Of sacred joy’s perpetual mood,",
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    "text": "And service-seeking gratitude,",
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    "text": "And love to quell each strife or feud,",
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    "text": "If it arise.",
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    "text": "Grant it, O Lord!",
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    "text": "To whom, the Father, Only Son,",
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    "text": "And Holy Spirit, Three in One,",
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    "text": "In heaven and earth all praise be done,",
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