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    "text": "Silent, the Lord of the world",
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    "text": "Eyes from the heavenly height,",
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    "text": "Girt by his far-shining train,",
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    "text": "Us, who with banners unfurl’d",
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    "text": "Fight life’ many-chanc’d fight",
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    "text": "Madly below, in the plain.",
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    "text": "Thus saith the Lord to his own:⁠—",
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    "text": "“See ye the battle below?",
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    "text": "Turmoil of death and of birth!",
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   {
    "text": "Too long let we them groan.",
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    "text": "Haste, arise ye, and go;",
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    "text": "Carry my peace upon earth.”",
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    "text": "Gladly they rise at his call;",
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    "text": "Gladly they take his command;",
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    "text": "Gladly descend to the plain.",
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    "text": "Alas! How few of them all⁠—",
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    "text": "Those willing servants⁠—shall stand",
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    "text": "In the Master’s presence again!",
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    "text": "Some in the tumult are lost:",
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    "text": "Baffled, bewilder’d, they stray.",
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    "text": "Some as prisoners draw breath.",
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    "text": "Others⁠—the bravest⁠—are cross’d,",
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    "text": "On the height of their bold-follow’d way,",
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    "text": "By the swift-rushing missile of Death.",
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    "text": "Hardly, hardly shall one",
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    "text": "Come, with countenance bright,",
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    "text": "O’er the cloud-wrapt, perilous plain:",
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    "text": "His Master’s errand well done,",
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    "text": "Safe through the smoke of the fight,",
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    "text": "Back to his Master again.",
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