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 "title": "Vespers⁠—Sunday",
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    "text": "Father of Lights, by whom each day",
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   {
    "text": "Is kindled out of night,",
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    "text": "Who, when the heavens were made, didst lay",
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    "text": "Their rudiments in light;",
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    "text": "Thou, who didst bind and blend in one",
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    "text": "The glistening morn and evening pale,",
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    "text": "Hear Thou our plaint, when light is gone,",
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    "text": "And lawlessness and strife prevail.",
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    "text": "Hear, lest the whelming weight of crime",
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    "text": "Wreck us with life in view;",
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    "text": "Lest thoughts and schemes of sense and time",
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    "text": "Earn us a sinner’s due.",
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    "text": "So may we knock at Heaven’s door,",
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    "text": "And strive the immortal prize to win,",
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    "text": "Continually and evermore",
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    "text": "Grant this, O Father, Only Son,",
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    "text": "And Spirit, God of grace,",
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