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 "title": "Communion with the Saints in Glory",
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    "text": "Refreshed by the bread and wine,",
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   {
    "text": "The pledges of our Saviour’s love,",
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    "text": "Now let our hearts and voices join",
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    "text": "In songs of praise with those above.",
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    "text": "Do they sing, “Worthy is the Lamb”?",
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    "text": "Although we cannot reach their strains,",
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    "text": "Yet we through grace can sing the same⁠—",
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    "text": "For us he died, for us he reigns.",
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    "text": "If they behold him face to face,",
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    "text": "While we a glimpse can only see,",
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    "text": "Yet, equal debtors to his grace,",
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    "text": "As safe and as beloved are we.",
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    "text": "They had, like us, a suff’ring time,",
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    "text": "Our cares and fears and griefs they knew;",
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    "text": "But they have conquer’d all through Him,",
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    "text": "And we ere long shall conquer too.",
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    "text": "Though all the songs of saints in light",
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    "text": "Are far beneath His matchless worth,",
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    "text": "His grace is such, He will not slight",
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    "text": "The poor attempts of worms on earth.",
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