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    "text": "My soul, this curious house of clay,",
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    "text": "Thy present frail abode,",
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    "text": "Must quickly fall to worms a prey,",
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    "text": "And thou return to God.",
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    "text": "Canst thou by faith survey with joy",
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    "text": "The change before it come?",
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    "text": "And say⁠—“Let death this house destroy,",
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    "text": "I have a heav’nly home?”",
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    "text": "The Saviour, whom I then shall see",
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    "text": "With new admiring eyes,",
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    "text": "A mansion in the skies.",
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    "text": "I feel this mud-wall cottage shake,",
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    "text": "That I my willing flight may take",
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    "text": "Burden’d and groaning then no more,",
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    "text": "As up the shining path I soar,",
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    "text": "“Death, thou hast lost thy sting!”",
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    "text": "Dear Saviour, help us now to seek,",
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    "text": "And know thy grace’s power,",
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    "text": "That we may all this language speak",
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