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    "text": "Come unto me, the Master says:⁠—",
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    "text": "But how? I am not good;",
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    "text": "No thankful song my heart will raise,",
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    "text": "Nor even wish it could.",
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    "text": "I am not sorry for the past,",
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    "text": "Nor able not to sin;",
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    "text": "The weary strife would ever last",
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    "text": "If once I should begin!",
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    "text": "Hast thou no burden then to bear?",
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    "text": "No action to repent?",
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    "text": "Is all around so very fair?",
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    "text": "Is thy heart quite content?",
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    "text": "Hast thou no sickness in thy soul?",
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    "text": "No labour to endure?",
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    "text": "Then go in peace, for thou art whole;",
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    "text": "Thou needest not his cure.",
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    "text": "Ah, mock me not! I often sigh;",
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    "text": "I have a nameless grief,",
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    "text": "A faint sad pain⁠—but such that I",
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    "text": "Can look for no relief.",
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    "text": "Come, come to him who made thy heart;",
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    "text": "Come weary and oppressed;",
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    "text": "To come to Jesus is thy part,",
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    "text": "His part to give thee rest.",
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    "text": "New grief, new hope he will bestow,",
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    "text": "Thy grief and pain to quell;",
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    "text": "Into thy heart himself will go,",
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    "text": "And that will make thee well.",
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