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    "text": "The number of Thine own complete,",
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    "text": "Sum up and make an end;",
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    "text": "Sift clean the chaff, and house the wheat;",
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    "text": "And then, O Lord, descend.",
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    "text": "Descend, and solve by that descent",
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    "text": "This mystery of life;",
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    "text": "Where good and ill, together blent,",
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    "text": "Wage an undying strife.",
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    "text": "For rivers twain are gushing still,",
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    "text": "And pour a mingled flood;",
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    "text": "Good in the very depths of ill,",
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    "text": "The last are first, the first are last,",
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    "text": "These from the sheep-cote sternly cast,",
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    "text": "Those welcomed to the fold.",
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    "text": "No Christian home, no pastor’s eye,",
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    "text": "Moved Thy dear Martyr to defy",
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    "text": "Forth from the heathen ranks she stept,",
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    "text": "The forfeit crown to claim",
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    "text": "Of Christian souls who had not kept",
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    "text": "Their birthright and their name.",
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    "text": "Grace form’d her out of sinful dust;",
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    "text": "She knelt a soul defiled,",
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    "text": "She rose in all the faith, and trust,",
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    "text": "And in the freshness of that love",
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    "text": "She preach’d, by word and deed,",
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    "text": "The mysteries of the world above,",
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    "text": "Her new-found, glorious creed.",
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    "text": "And running, in a little hour,",
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    "text": "Of life the course complete,",
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    "text": "She reach’d the Throne of endless power;",
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    "text": "And sits at Jesu’s feet.",
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    "text": "Her spirit there, her body here,",
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    "text": "Make one the earth and sky;",
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   {
    "text": "We use her name, we touch her bier,",
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    "text": "We know her God is nigh.",
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    "text": "Praise to the Father, as is meet,",
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    "text": "Praise to the Only Son,",
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   {
    "text": "Praise to the Holy Paraclete",
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    "text": "While endless ages run.",
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