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 "title": "Harvest",
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    "text": "See the corn again in ear!",
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    "text": "How the fields and valleys smile!",
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    "text": "Harvest now is drawing near,",
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    "text": "To repay the farmer’s toil.",
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    "text": "Gracious Lord, secure the crop,",
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    "text": "Satisfy the poor with food:",
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    "text": "In thy mercy is our hope;",
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    "text": "We have sinn’d, but thou art good.",
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    "text": "While I view the plenteous grain,",
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    "text": "As it ripens on the stalk,",
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    "text": "May I not instruction gain",
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    "text": "Helpful to my daily walk?",
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    "text": "All this plenty of the field",
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    "text": "Was produced from foreign seeds:",
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    "text": "For the earth itself would yield",
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    "text": "Though when newly sown it lay",
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    "text": "Hid awhile beneath the ground,",
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    "text": "(Some might think it thrown away,)",
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    "text": "Now a large increase is found;",
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    "text": "Though conceal’d, it was not lost;",
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    "text": "Though it died, it lives again;",
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    "text": "Eastern storms and nipping frosts",
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    "text": "Have opposed its growth in vain.",
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    "text": "Let the praise be all the Lord’s,",
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    "text": "As the benefit is ours.",
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    "text": "He in season still affords",
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    "text": "Kindly heat and gentle showers.",
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    "text": "By his care the produce thrives,",
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    "text": "Waving o’er the furrow’d lands;",
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    "text": "And when harvest-time arrives,",
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    "text": "Ready for the reaper stands.",
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    "text": "Thus in barren hearts he sows",
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    "text": "Precious seeds of heav’nly joy;",
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    "text": "Sin and hell in vain oppose,",
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    "text": "None can grace’s crop destroy:",
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   {
    "text": "Threatened oft, yet still it blooms,",
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    "text": "After many changes past;",
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    "text": "Death the reaper, when he comes,",
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    "text": "Finds it fully ripe at last.",
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