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    "text": "My harp untuned, and laid aside,",
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    "text": "(To cheerful hours the harp belongs,)",
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    "text": "My cruel foes insulting cried,",
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   {
    "text": "“Come, sing us one of Zion’s songs.”",
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    "text": "Alas! when sinners, blindly bold,",
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    "text": "At Zion scoff, and Zion’s King;",
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    "text": "When zeal declines, and love grows cold,",
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    "text": "Is this a day for me to sing?",
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    "text": "Time was, whene’er the saints I met,",
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    "text": "With joy and praise my bosom glow’d!",
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    "text": "But now, like Eli, sad I sit,",
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    "text": "While thus to grief my soul gave way",
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    "text": "To see the work of God decline,",
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    "text": "Methought I heard my Saviour say,",
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    "text": "“Dismiss thy fears⁠—the ark is mine.",
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    "text": "“Though for a time I hide my face,",
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    "text": "Rely upon my love and power;",
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    "text": "Still wrestle at a throne of grace,",
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    "text": "“Take down thy long-neglected harp;",
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    "text": "I’ve seen thy tears, and heard thy pray’r;",
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    "text": "The winter season has been sharp,",
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    "text": "But spring shall all its wastes repair.”",
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    "text": "Lord, I obey; my hopes revive;",
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    "text": "Come join with me, ye saints, and sing;",
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    "text": "Our foes in vain against us strive,",
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    "text": "For God will help and healing bring.",
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