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 "container": "After Sermons to Young People on New-Year’s Evenings, Suited to the Subjects",
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    "text": "The grass and flow’rs which clothe the field,",
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    "text": "Touch’d by the scythe, defenceless yield,",
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    "text": "Fit emblem of our mortal state!",
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    "text": "Thus, in the Scripture glass,",
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    "text": "Ah! trust not to your fleeting breath,",
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    "text": "Around you see the scythe of death",
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    "text": "And you, who hitherto are spared,",
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    "text": "The grass, when dead, revives no more;",
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    "text": "But oh! if death should prove the door",
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    "text": "To everlasting pain!",
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    "text": "Lord, help us to obey thy call,",
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    "text": "When, like the grass, our bodies fall,",
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    "text": "Our souls may spring to thee.",
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