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    "text": "Pleasing spring again is here;",
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    "text": "Trees and fields in bloom appear:",
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    "text": "Hark! the birds with artless lays,",
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    "text": "Warble their Creator’s praise!",
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    "text": "Where, in winter, all was snow,",
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    "text": "Now the flow’rs in clusters grow,",
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    "text": "What a change has taken place!",
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    "text": "Emblem of the spring of grace;",
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    "text": "How the soul in winter mourns",
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    "text": "Till the Lord, the Sun, returns⁠—",
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    "text": "Till the Spirit’s gentle rain",
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    "text": "Bids the heart revive again;",
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    "text": "Then the stone is turn’d to flesh,",
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    "text": "And each grace springs forth afresh.",
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    "text": "Lord, afford a spring to me!",
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    "text": "Let me feel like what I see;",
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    "text": "Ah! my winter has been long,",
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    "text": "Chill’d my hopes and stopp’d my song!",
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    "text": "Winter threaten’d to destroy",
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    "text": "Faith and love and every joy;",
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    "text": "If thy life was in the root,",
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    "text": "Still I could not yield the fruit.",
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    "text": "Speak, and by thy gracious voice",
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    "text": "Make my drooping soul rejoice;",
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    "text": "O beloved Saviour haste,",
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    "text": "Tell me all the storms are past!",
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    "text": "On thy garden deign to smile,",
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    "text": "Raise the plants, enrich the soil",
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    "text": "Soon thy presence will restore",
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    "text": "Life to what seem’d dead before.",
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    "text": "Lord, I long to be at home,",
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    "text": "Where these changes never come,",
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    "text": "Where the saints no winter fear,",
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    "text": "Where ’tis spring throughout the year:",
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    "text": "How unlike this state below!",
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   {
    "text": "There the flow’rs unwith’ring blow;",
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   {
    "text": "There no chilling blasts annoy;",
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    "text": "All is love and bloom and joy.",
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