Canticle

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A canticle (from the Latin for "little song; songlet; ditty") is, in church usage, a song lyric of scriptural origin that is not one of the Psalms. It may be read (simply or responsively) as a poem, chanted, or recast in metrical form and sung. Among the Biblical canticles are:

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