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    "text": "One only, of God’s messengers to man,",
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   {
    "text": "Finish’d the work of grace, which He began;",
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    "text": "E’en Moses wearied upon Nebo’s height,",
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    "text": "With the doom’d foe, and yield the sun-bright land",
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    "text": "To Joshua’s armèd hand.",
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    "text": "And David wrought in turn a strenuous part,",
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    "text": "Zeal for God’s house consuming him in heart;",
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    "text": "And yet he might not build, but only bring",
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    "text": "Gifts for the Heavenly King;",
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    "text": "And these another rear’d, his peaceful son,",
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    "text": "Till the full work was done.",
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    "text": "List, Christian warrior! thou, whose soul is fain",
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    "text": "To rid thy Mother of her present chain;⁠—",
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    "text": "Christ will avenge His Bride; yea, even now",
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    "text": "Begins the work, and thou",
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