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    "text": "What a mournful life is mine,",
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    "text": "Fill’d with crosses, pains, and cares!",
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    "text": "Every work denied with sin,",
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    "text": "If alone I pensive sit,",
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    "text": "I myself can hardly bear;",
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    "text": "If I pass along the street,",
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    "text": "Jesus! how my heart is pain’d,",
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    "text": "How it mourns for souls deceived⁠—",
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    "text": "When I hear thy name profaned,",
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    "text": "When thy children’s griefs I view,",
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    "text": "All I hear or see or do",
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    "text": "Mourning thus I long had been",
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    "text": "When I heard my Saviour’s voice:",
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    "text": "“Thou hast cause to mourn for sin,",
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    "text": "But in me thou may’st rejoice.”",
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    "text": "This kind word dispell’d my grief,",
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    "text": "Put to silence my complaints;",
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    "text": "Though of sinners I am chief,",
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    "text": "He has rank’d me with his saints.",
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    "text": "Though constrain’d to dwell a while",
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    "text": "Where the wicked strive and brawl,",
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    "text": "Let them frown⁠—so he but smile,",
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    "text": "Heav’n will make amends for all.",
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    "text": "There, believers, we shall rest,",
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    "text": "Free from sorrow, sin, and fears;",
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    "text": "Nothing there our peace molest",
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    "text": "Through eternal rounds of years.",
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    "text": "Let us then the fight endure.⁠—",
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    "text": "See our Captain looking down:",
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    "text": "He will make the conquest sure,",
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    "text": "And bestow the promised crown.",
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