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    "text": "Let hearts and tongues unite,",
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    "text": "’Tis duty, mingled with delight,",
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    "text": "Now through another year,",
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    "text": "We raise our Ebenezer here,",
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    "text": "“The Lord has help’d thus far.”",
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