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    "text": "About us lies the summer night;",
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    "text": "Clear white of dawn, and apple green,",
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    "text": "Sole lingering of the evening’s hue,",
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    "text": "Behind the clustered trees are seen,",
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    "text": "So glow above the dusk of sin,",
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    "text": "Remembrance of Redemption vast,",
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    "text": "And future hope of joy therein",
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    "text": "That shall be shed on us at last.",
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    "text": "Each haloed in its husk of light,",
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    "text": "Atoms and worlds about us lie;",
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    "text": "Though here we grope awhile in night,",
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    "text": "’Tis always daylight up on high.",
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