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    "text": "O David’s Son and David’s Lord!",
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    "text": "From age to age thou art the same;",
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    "text": "Thy gracious presence now afford,",
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    "text": "And teach our youth to know thy name.",
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    "text": "Thy people, Lord, though oft distress’d,",
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    "text": "Upheld by thee, thus far are come;",
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    "text": "And now we long to see thy rest,",
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    "text": "And wait thy word to call us home.",
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    "text": "Like David, when this life shall end,",
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    "text": "We trust in thee sure peace to find;",
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    "text": "Like him, to thee we now commend",
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    "text": "The children we must leave behind.",
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    "text": "Ere long, we hope to be where care",
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    "text": "And sin and sorrow never come;",
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    "text": "But oh! accept our humble prayer,",
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    "text": "That these may praise thee in our room",
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    "text": "Show them how vile they are by sin,",
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    "text": "And wash them in thy cleansing blood;",
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    "text": "Oh, make them willing to be thine,",
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    "text": "And be to them a cov’nant God.",
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    "text": "Long may thy light and truth remain",
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    "text": "To bless this place when we are gone,",
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    "text": "And numbers here be born again,",
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    "text": "To dwell for ever near thy throne.",
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