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    "text": "By faith in Christ I walk with God,",
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    "text": "With heaven, my journey’s end, in view;",
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    "text": "Supported by his staff and rod,",
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    "text": "I travel through a desert wide,",
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    "text": "Where many round me blindly stray:",
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    "text": "But he vouchsafes to be my guide,",
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    "text": "Though snares and dangers throng my path.",
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    "text": "And earth and hell my course withstand,",
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    "text": "I triumph over all by faith,",
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    "text": "Guarded by his almighty hand.",
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    "text": "The wilderness affords no food,",
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    "text": "But God for my support prepares⁠—",
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    "text": "Provides me every needful good,",
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    "text": "And frees my soul from wants and cares.",
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    "text": "With him sweet converse I maintain;",
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    "text": "Great as he is, I dare be free;",
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    "text": "I tell him all my grief and pain,",
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    "text": "And he reveals his love to me.",
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    "text": "Some cordial from his word he brings",
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    "text": "Whene’er my feeble spirit faints⁠—",
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    "text": "At once my soul revives and sings,",
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    "text": "I pity all that worldlings talk",
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    "text": "Of pleasures that will quickly end:",
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    "text": "Be this my choice, O Lord, to walk",
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    "text": "With thee, my Guide, my Guard, my Friend.",
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