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MATINS.
Lord, Thou hast promised. Lo! I give Thee back / Thine own great Word. Keep it. I summon Thee. / Keep it as God can, not as men do. See, / Great God! who art to us the awful Truth / Whereby we live, and move, and know the true -- / I ask Thee to be true unto Thyself.