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 "title": "Jericho; or, the Waters Healed",
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    "text": "Though Jericho pleasantly stood,",
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    "text": "And look’d like a promising soil,",
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    "text": "The harvest produced little food,",
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    "text": "To answer the husbandman’s toil.",
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    "text": "The water some property had",
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    "text": "Which poisonous proved to the ground,",
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    "text": "The springs were corrupted and bad,",
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    "text": "The streams spread a barrenness round.",
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    "text": "But soon by the cruse and the salt",
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    "text": "Prepared by Elisha’s command",
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    "text": "The water was cured of its fault,",
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    "text": "And plenty enriched the land.",
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    "text": "An emblem sure this of the grace",
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    "text": "On fruitless dead sinners bestow’d;",
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    "text": "For man is in Jericho’s case",
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    "text": "Till cured by the mercy of God.",
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    "text": "How noble a creature he seems!",
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    "text": "What knowledge, invention, and skill!",
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   {
    "text": "How large and extensive his schemes!",
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    "text": "How much can he do if he will!",
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    "text": "His zeal to be learned and wise",
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    "text": "Will yield to no limits or bars;",
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    "text": "He measures the earth and the skies,",
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    "text": "And numbers and marshals the stars.",
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    "text": "Yet still he is barren of good;",
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    "text": "In vain are his talents and art;",
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    "text": "For sin has infected his blood,",
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    "text": "And poison’d the streams of his heart.",
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    "text": "Though cockatrice eggs he can hatch,",
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    "text": "Or, spider-like, cobwebs can weave,",
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    "text": "’Tis madness to labour and watch",
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    "text": "But grace, like the salt in the cruse,",
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    "text": "When cast in the spring of the soul,",
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    "text": "A wonderful change will produce,",
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    "text": "Diffusing new life through the whole:",
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    "text": "The wilderness blooms like a rose,",
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    "text": "The heart which was vile and abhorr’d",
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    "text": "Now fruitful and beautiful grows⁠—",
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    "text": "The garden and joy of the Lord.",
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