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    "text": "Kindle, Saviour, in my heart",
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   {
    "text": "A flame of love divine;",
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    "text": "Hear, for mine I trust thou art,",
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    "text": "And sure I would be thine:",
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    "text": "If my soul has felt thy grace,",
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    "text": "If to me thy name is known;",
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    "text": "Why should trifles fill the place",
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    "text": "Due to thyself alone?",
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    "text": "’Tis a strange mysterious life",
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    "text": "I live from day to day;",
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    "text": "Light and darkness, peace and strife,",
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    "text": "Bear an alternate sway:",
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    "text": "When I think the battle won,",
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    "text": "I have to fight it o’er again;",
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    "text": "When I say I’m overthrown,",
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    "text": "Often at the mercy-seat,",
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    "text": "While calling on thy name;",
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    "text": "Swarms of evil thoughts I meet,",
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    "text": "Which fill my soul with shame.",
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    "text": "Agitated in my mind,",
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    "text": "Like a feather in the air,",
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    "text": "Can I thus a blessing find?",
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    "text": "My soul, can this be pray’r?",
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    "text": "But when Christ, my Lord and Friend,",
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    "text": "Is pleased to show his power,",
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    "text": "All at once my troubles end,",
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    "text": "And I’ve a golden hour:",
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    "text": "Then I see his smiling face,",
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    "text": "Feel the pledge of joys to come,",
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    "text": "Often, Lord, repeat this grace",
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    "text": "Till thou shalt call me home.",
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