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    "text": "Far from the world, O Lord, I flee.",
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    "text": "From strife and tumult far!",
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    "text": "From scenes where Satan wages still",
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    "text": "With pray’r and praise agree;",
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    "text": "And seem by thy sweet bounty made",
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    "text": "There, if thy Spirit touch the soul,",
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    "text": "Oh with what peace and joy and love",
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    "text": "There like the nightingale she pours",
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    "text": "Her solitary lays;",
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    "text": "Author and Guardian of my life,",
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    "text": "Sweet source of light divine,",
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    "text": "And (all harmonious names in one)",
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    "text": "What thanks I owe thee, and what love,",
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    "text": "Shall echo through the realms above",
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