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    "text": "Thus saith the Lord to Ephesus,",
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   {
    "text": "And thus he speaks to some of us⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "“Amidst my churches, lo, I stand,",
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    "text": "And hold the pastors in my hand.",
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  [
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    "text": "“Thy works to me are fully known,",
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    "text": "Thy patience and thy toil I own;",
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   {
    "text": "Thy views of gospel truth are clear,",
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    "text": "Nor canst thou other doctrine bear.",
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   {
    "text": "“Yet I must blame while I approve;",
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    "text": "Where is thy first, thy fervent love?",
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   {
    "text": "Dost thou forget my love to thee,",
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    "text": "That thine is grown so faint to me?",
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    "text": "“Recall to mind the happy days",
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    "text": "When thou wast fill’d with joy and praise;",
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    "text": "Repent⁠—thy former works renew⁠—",
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    "text": "Then I’ll restore thy comforts too.",
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    "text": "“Return at once, when I reprove,",
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    "text": "Lest I thy candlestick remove;",
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   {
    "text": "And thou too late thy loss lament:",
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    "text": "I warn before I strike⁠—Repent.”",
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    "text": "Hearken to what the Spirit saith,",
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    "text": "“To him that overcomes by faith,",
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    "text": "The fruit of life’s unfading tree",
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    "text": "In paradise his food shall be.”",
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