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    "text": "Let me dwell on Golgotha,",
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   {
    "text": "Weep and love my life away,",
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    "text": "While I see Him on the tree",
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    "text": "Weep and bleed and die for me!",
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    "text": "That dear blood for sinners spilt",
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    "text": "Shows my sin in all its guilt;",
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    "text": "Ah! my soul, He bore thy load⁠—",
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    "text": "Thou hast slain the Lamb of God.",
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    "text": "Hark! his dying word, “Forgive!",
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    "text": "Father, let the sinner live:",
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    "text": "Sinner, wipe thy tears away,",
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    "text": "I thy ransom freely pay.”",
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    "text": "While I hear this grace reveal’d,",
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    "text": "And obtain a pardon seal’d,",
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    "text": "All my soft affections move,",
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    "text": "Waken’d by the force of love.",
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    "text": "Farewell, world, thy gold is dross,",
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    "text": "Now I see the bleeding cross;",
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    "text": "Jesus died to set me free",
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    "text": "From the law and sin and thee!",
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    "text": "He has dearly bought my soul;",
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    "text": "Lord, accept and claim the whole!",
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    "text": "To thy will I all resign,",
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    "text": "Now, no more my own, but thine.",
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