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    "text": "When Hannah, press’d with grief,",
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    "text": "Pour’d forth her soul in pray’r;",
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    "text": "She quickly found relief,",
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    "text": "And left her burden there:",
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    "text": "Like her, in every trying case",
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    "text": "Let us approach the throne of grace.",
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    "text": "When she began to pray,",
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    "text": "Her heart was pain’d and sad;",
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    "text": "But ere she went away",
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    "text": "Was comforted and glad.",
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    "text": "In trouble what a resting-place",
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    "text": "Have they who know the throne of grace!",
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    "text": "Though men and devils rage,",
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    "text": "And threaten to devour,",
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    "text": "The saints from age to age",
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    "text": "Are safe from all their power;",
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    "text": "Fresh strength they gain to run their race",
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    "text": "By waiting at the throne of grace.",
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    "text": "Eli her case mistook;",
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    "text": "How was her spirit moved",
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    "text": "By his unkind rebuke!",
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    "text": "But God her cause approved.",
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    "text": "We need not fear a creature’s face",
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    "text": "While welcome at the throne of grace.",
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    "text": "She was not fill’d with wine,",
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    "text": "As Eli rashly thought,",
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    "text": "But with a faith divine,",
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    "text": "And found the help she sought.",
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    "text": "Though men despise and call us base,",
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    "text": "Still let us ply the throne of grace.",
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    "text": "Men have not power or skill",
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    "text": "With troubled souls to bear;",
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    "text": "Though they express good-will.",
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    "text": "Poor comforters they are:",
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    "text": "But swelling sorrows sink apace",
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    "text": "When we approach the throne of grace.",
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    "text": "Numbers before have tried,",
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    "text": "And found the promise true;",
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    "text": "Nor yet one been denied,",
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    "text": "Then why should I or you?",
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    "text": "Let us by faith their footsteps trace,",
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    "text": "And hasten to the throne of grace.",
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    "text": "As fogs obscure the light,",
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    "text": "And taint the morning air,",
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    "text": "But soon are put to flight",
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    "text": "If the bright sun appear,",
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    "text": "Thus Jesus will our troubles chase,",
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    "text": "By shining from the throne of grace.",
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