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    "text": "I am at peace⁠—no storm can ever touch me;",
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   {
    "text": "On my clear heights the sunshine only falls;",
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   {
    "text": "Far, far below glides the phantom voice of sorrows,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In peace-lifted light the Silence only calls.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ah, Soul, ascend! The mountain way, up-leading,",
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   {
    "text": "Bears to the heights whereon the Blest have trod!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lay down the burden;⁠—stanch the heart’s sad bleeding;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Be ye at peace, for know that Ye are God!",
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   }
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  [
   {
    "text": "Not long the way, not far in a dim heaven;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the locked Self seek ye the guiding star:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Clear shine its rays, illumining the shadow;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There, where God is, there, too, O Souls ye are.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ye are at one, and bound in Him forever,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ev’n as the wave is bound in the great sea;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Never to drift beyond, below Him, never!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whole as God is, so, even so, are ye.",
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