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    "text": "The moon in silver glory shone,",
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    "text": "How fast across her orb it spread!",
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    "text": "A circle, tinged with languid red,",
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    "text": "While many, with unmeaning eye,",
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    "text": "Gaze on thy works in vain,",
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    "text": "Assist me, Lord, that I may try",
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    "text": "Instruction to obtain.",
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    "text": "Fain would my thankful heart and lips",
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    "text": "Unite in praise of thee,",
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    "text": "And meditate on thy eclipse",
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    "text": "In sad Gethsemane.",
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    "text": "Thy people’s guilt, a heavy load,",
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    "text": "(When standing in their room,)",
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    "text": "Deprived thee of the light of God,",
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    "text": "And fill’d thy soul with gloom.",
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    "text": "How punctu’lly eclipses move,",
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    "text": "Obedient to thy will!",
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    "text": "Thus shall thy faithfulness and love",
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    "text": "Thy promises fulfill.",
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    "text": "Dark, like the moon without the sun,",
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    "text": "I mourn thine absence, Lord!",
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    "text": "For light or comfort I have none",
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    "text": "But what thy beams afford.",
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    "text": "But, lo! the hour draws near apace,",
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    "text": "When changes shall be o’er;",
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    "text": "Then I shall see thee face to face,",
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    "text": "And be eclipsed no more.",
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