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 "poet": "John Newton",
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 "container": "Before Annual Sermons to Young People on New-Year’s Evenings",
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    "text": "Elisha, struck with grief and awe,",
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    "text": "Cried, Ah! where now is Isr’el’s stay?”",
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    "text": "When he his honour’d master saw",
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    "text": "Borne by a fiery car away.",
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    "text": "But while he look’d a last adieu,",
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    "text": "His mantle, as it fell, he caught;",
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    "text": "The Spirit rested on him too,",
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    "text": "“Where is Elijah’s God?” he cried,",
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    "text": "And with the mantle smote the flood;",
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    "text": "His word control’d the swelling tide,",
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    "text": "The wonder-working gospel thus",
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    "text": "From hand to hand has been convey’d;",
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    "text": "We have the mantle still with us,",
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    "text": "But where, O where’s the Spirit’s aid?",
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    "text": "When Peter first his mantle waved,",
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    "text": "How soon it melted hearts of steel!",
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    "text": "Sinners, by thousands, then were saved,",
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    "text": "But now how few its virtues feel!",
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    "text": "Where is Elijah’s God, the Lord,",
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    "text": "Thine Isr’el’s hope and joy and boast?",
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   {
    "text": "Reveal thine arm, confirm thy word,",
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   {
    "text": "Give us another Pentecost!",
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    "text": "Assist thy messenger to speak,",
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    "text": "And while he aims to lisp thy truth,",
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    "text": "The bonds of sin and Satan break,",
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    "text": "And pour thy blessing on our youth.",
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    "text": "For them we now approach thy throne:",
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   {
    "text": "Teach them to know and love thy name,",
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   {
    "text": "Then shall thy thankful people own,",
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   {
    "text": "Elijah’s God is still the same.",
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