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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "“Write to Sardis,” (saith the Lord,)",
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   {
    "text": "And write what he declares,",
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    "text": "He whose Spirit and whose word",
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   {
    "text": "Upholds the seven stars:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“All thy works and ways I search,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Find thy zeal and love decay’d;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou art call’d a living church,",
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   {
    "text": "But thou art cold and dead.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Watch, remember, seek, and strive,",
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   {
    "text": "Exert thy former pains:",
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   {
    "text": "Let thy timely care revive,",
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   {
    "text": "And strengthen what remains:",
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   {
    "text": "Cleanse thine heart, thy works amend,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Former times to mind recall,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lest my sudden stroke descend,",
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   {
    "text": "And smite thee once for all.",
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    "text": "“Yet I number now in thee",
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   {
    "text": "A few that are upright;",
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    "text": "These my Father’s face shall see,",
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   {
    "text": "And walk with me in white:",
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   {
    "text": "When in judgment I appear,",
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   {
    "text": "They for mine shall be confess’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Let my faithful servants hear,",
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   {
    "text": "And woe be to the rest!”",
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