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    "text": "If Solomon for wisdom pray’d,",
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    "text": "The Lord before had made him wise;",
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    "text": "Else he another choice had made,",
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    "text": "And ask’d for what the worldings prize.",
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    "text": "Thus he invites his people still⁠—",
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    "text": "He first instructs them how to choose,",
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    "text": "Then bids them ask whate’er they will,",
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    "text": "Our wishes would our ruin prove,",
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    "text": "Could we our wretched choice obtain⁠—",
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    "text": "Before we feel the Saviour’s love",
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    "text": "Kindle our love to him again:",
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    "text": "But when our hearts perceive his worth,",
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    "text": "Desires, till then unknown, take place;",
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    "text": "Our spirits cleave no more to earth,",
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    "text": "And dost thou say, “Ask what thou wilt”?",
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    "text": "Lord, I would seize the golden hour⁠—",
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    "text": "I pray to be released from guilt,",
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    "text": "And freed from sin and Satan’s power.",
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    "text": "More of thy presence, Lord, impart;",
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    "text": "More of thy image let me bear;",
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    "text": "Erect thy throne within my heart,",
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    "text": "And reign without a rival there.",
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    "text": "Give me to read my pardon seal’d,",
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    "text": "And from thy joy to draw my strength⁠—",
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    "text": "To have thy boundless love reveal’d",
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    "text": "In all its height and breadth and length.",
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    "text": "Grant these requests⁠—I ask no more,",
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    "text": "But to thy care the rest resign;",
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   {
    "text": "Sick or in health, or rich or poor,",
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   {
    "text": "All shall be well if thou art mine.",
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