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   {
    "text": "“Mercy, thou son of David!”",
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   {
    "text": "Thus blind Bartimeus pray’d;",
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   {
    "text": "“Others by thy word are saved,",
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    "text": "Now to me afford thine aid.”",
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   {
    "text": "Many for his crying chid him,",
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    "text": "But he call’d the louder still,",
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   {
    "text": "Till the gracious Saviour bid him",
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    "text": "“Come, and ask me what you will.”",
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    "text": "Money was not what he wanted,",
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    "text": "Though by begging used to live;",
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    "text": "But he ask’d, and Jesus granted",
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    "text": "Alms which none but he could give:",
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   {
    "text": "“Lord, remove this grievous blindness,",
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    "text": "Let my eyes behold the day;”",
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    "text": "Straight he saw and, won by kindness,",
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    "text": "Follow’d Jesus in the way.",
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    "text": "Oh! methinks I hear him praising,",
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    "text": "Publishing to all around,",
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   {
    "text": "“Friends, is not my case amazing?",
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    "text": "What a Saviour I have found!",
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    "text": "Oh! that all the blind but knew him,",
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    "text": "And would be advised by me;",
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    "text": "Surely they would hasten to him,",
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    "text": "He would cause them all to see.”",
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