\documentclass{book}
 
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 \begin{description}
 
 \item[Psalms (131:1)]
 
 \item[My heart] is not
    haughty, nor mine eyes lofty:
 
 \item[neither do] I exercise
    myself in great matters, or
    in things too high for me.
 
 \end{description}
 
 \end{document}