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    "text": "Sight, hearing, feeling, taste, and smell.",
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    "text": "Are gifts we highly prize;",
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    "text": "But faith does singly each excel,",
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    "text": "More piercing than the eagle’s sight,",
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    "text": "Surveys the glorious realms of light,",
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    "text": "It hears the mighty voice of God,",
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    "text": "His word and works, his gifts and rod,",
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    "text": "Have each a voice to faith.",
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    "text": "It feels the touch of heav’nly power,",
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    "text": "And from that boundless source",
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    "text": "The truth and goodness of the Lord",
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    "text": "Are suited to its taste;",
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    "text": "Mean is the worldling’s pamper’d board,",
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    "text": "To faith’s perpetual feast.",
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    "text": "It smells the dear Redeemer’s name",
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    "text": "Like ointment poured forth;",
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    "text": "Faith only knows, or can proclaim,",
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    "text": "Its savour or its worth.",
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    "text": "Till saving faith possess the mind,",
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    "text": "In vain of sense we boast;",
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    "text": "We are but senseless, tasteless, blind,",
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