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 "title": "A New-Year’s Thought and Prayer",
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 "poet": "John Newton",
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  "year": 1779,
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   {
    "text": "Time by moments steals away,",
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   {
    "text": "First the hour, and then the day;",
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   {
    "text": "Small the daily loss appears,",
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    "text": "Yet it soon amounts to years:",
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    "text": "Thus another year is flown,",
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   {
    "text": "Now it is no more our own,",
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   {
    "text": "If it brought or promised good,",
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    "text": "Than the years before the flood.",
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   {
    "text": "But (may none of us forget)",
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    "text": "It has left us much in debt;",
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    "text": "Favours from the Lord received,",
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    "text": "Sins that have his Spirit grieved,",
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   {
    "text": "Mark’d by an unerring hand,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In his book recorded stand;",
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   {
    "text": "Who can tell the vast amount",
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   {
    "text": "Placed to each of our account?",
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    "text": "Happy the believing soul!",
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   {
    "text": "Christ for you has paid the whole;",
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   {
    "text": "While you own the debt is large,",
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    "text": "You may plead a full discharge:",
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   {
    "text": "But, poor careless sinner, say,",
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   {
    "text": "What can you to justice pay?",
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    "text": "Tremble, lest, when life is past,",
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    "text": "Into prison you be cast!",
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    "text": "Will you still increase the score?",
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   {
    "text": "Still be careless as before?",
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   {
    "text": "Oh, forbid it, gracious Lord,",
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   {
    "text": "Touch their spirits by thy word!",
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   {
    "text": "Now, in mercy to them show",
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    "text": "What a mighty debt they owe!",
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   {
    "text": "All their unbelief subdue:",
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   {
    "text": "Let them find forgiveness too.",
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   {
    "text": "Spared to see another year,",
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   {
    "text": "Let thy blessing meet us here;",
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   {
    "text": "Come, thy dying work revive,",
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   {
    "text": "Bid thy drooping garden thrive:",
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   {
    "text": "Sun of righteousness, arise!",
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   {
    "text": "Warm our hearts, and bless our eyes;",
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   {
    "text": "Let our pray’r thy bowels move,",
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   {
    "text": "Make this year a time of love.",
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