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    "text": "Lord of unbounded space,",
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    "text": "Who, lest the sky and main",
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    "text": "Didst the rude waters chain;",
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    "text": "Parting the moist and rare,",
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    "text": "Pour on us of Thy grace",
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    "text": "The everlasting spring;",
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    "text": "Lest our frail steps renew the trace",
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    "text": "May faith in lustre grow,",
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    "text": "Grant it, O Father, Son,",
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