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    "text": "Physician of my sin-sick soul,",
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    "text": "To thee I bring my case;",
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    "text": "My raging malady control,",
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    "text": "Pity the anguish I endure,",
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    "text": "See how I mourn and pine;",
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    "text": "For never can I hope a cure",
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    "text": "From any hand but thine.",
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    "text": "I would disclose my whole complaint,",
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    "text": "But where shall I begin?",
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    "text": "No words of mine can fully paint",
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    "text": "That worst distemper, sin.",
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    "text": "It lies not in a single part,",
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    "text": "But through my frame is spread;",
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    "text": "A burning fever in my heart,",
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    "text": "A palsy in my head.",
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    "text": "It makes me deaf and dumb and blind,",
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    "text": "It overclouds and fills my mind",
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    "text": "A thousand evil thoughts intrude",
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    "text": "Tumultuous in my breast;",
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    "text": "Which indispose me for my food,",
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    "text": "Lord, I am sick, regard my cry,",
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    "text": "And set my spirit free:",
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    "text": "Say, canst thou let a sinner die,",
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    "text": "Who longs to live to thee?",
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