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    "text": "If Michael, leader of God’s host",
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    "text": "When Heaven and Hell are met,",
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    "text": "Looked down on you from Heaven’s door-post",
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    "text": "Brooding no more upon God’s wars",
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    "text": "In his Divine homestead,",
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    "text": "He would go weave out of the stars",
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    "text": "And all folk seeing him bow down,",
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    "text": "And white stars tell your praise,",
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    "text": "Would come at last to God’s great town,",
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    "text": "Led on by gentle ways;",
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    "text": "And God would bid His warfare cease,",
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    "text": "Saying all things were well;",
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    "text": "And softly make a rosy peace,",
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