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    "text": "Often thy public means of grace,",
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    "text": "Attack’d them in thy house of pray’r,",
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    "text": "But we from such assaults are freed,",
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    "text": "May we our privileges prize,",
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    "text": "In vain our liberty!",
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    "text": "What would it profit to maintain",
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    "text": "A name for life, should we remain",
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