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    "text": "Happy are they to whom the Lord",
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    "text": "The force of their united cries",
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    "text": "Though men despise them, or revile,",
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    "text": "Whoever frowns, if Jesus smile,",
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    "text": "Though meanly clad, and coarsely fed,",
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    "text": "And, like their Saviour, poor,",
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    "text": "They would not change their gospel-bread",
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    "text": "When cheer’d with faith’s sublimer joys,",
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    "text": "They mount on eagles’ wings;",
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    "text": "They can disdain, as children’s toys,",
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    "text": "Dear Lord, assist our souls to pay",
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    "text": "That we enjoy a gospel-day",
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    "text": "And heaven begun below.",
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