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    "text": "O Happy they who know the Lord,",
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    "text": "With whom he deigns to dwell!",
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    "text": "He feels and cheers them by his word,",
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    "text": "To them, in each distressing hour,",
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    "text": "And when they plead his love and power,",
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    "text": "He help’d his saints in ancient days,",
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    "text": "And we can witness, to his praise,",
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    "text": "His love is still the same.",
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    "text": "Wand’ring in sin, our souls he found,",
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    "text": "And bade us seek his face;",
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    "text": "Gave us to hear the gospel sound,",
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    "text": "Oft in his house his glory shines",
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    "text": "Before our wond’ring eyes;",
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    "text": "We wish not then for golden mines,",
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    "text": "Or aught beneath the skies.",
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    "text": "His presence sweetens all our cares,",
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    "text": "And makes our burdens light;",
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    "text": "A word from him dispels our fears,",
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    "text": "And gilds the gloom of night.",
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    "text": "Lord, we expect to suffer here,",
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    "text": "Nor would we dare repine;",
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    "text": "But give us still to find thee near,",
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    "text": "And own us still for thine.",
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    "text": "Let us enjoy and highly prize",
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    "text": "These tokens of thy love",
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    "text": "Till thou shalt bid our spirits rise",
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    "text": "To worship thee above.",
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