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    "text": "Life to her no brightness brought,",
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    "text": "He who lull’d the storm to rest,",
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    "text": "“While the crowd around him stand,",
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    "text": "I will touch,” the sufferer said;",
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    "text": "“Who hath touched me?” Jesus cried;",
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