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 "title": "Vespers⁠—Wednesday",
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    "text": "O Lord, who, thron’d in the holy height,",
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    "text": "Through plains of ether didst diffuse",
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    "text": "Who didst, on the fourth day, in heaven",
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    "text": "That they might mark and arbitrate",
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    "text": "’Twixt alternating night and day,",
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    "text": "Of months upon their way;",
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    "text": "Clear, Lord, the brooding night within,",
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    "text": "Unlock the spell of sin,",
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    "text": "Grant it, O Father, Only Son,",
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