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 "poet": "John Newton",
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    "text": "Why should I fear the darkest hour,",
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    "text": "Or tremble at the tempter’s power!",
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    "text": "Jesus vouchsafes to be my tower.",
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    "text": "Though hot the fight, why quit the field,",
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    "text": "Why must I either flee or yield,",
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    "text": "Since Jesus is my mighty shield?",
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    "text": "When creature-comforts fade and die,",
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    "text": "Worldlings may weep, but why should I,",
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    "text": "Jesus still lives, and still is nigh?",
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    "text": "Though all the flocks and herds were dead,",
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    "text": "My soul a famine need not dread,",
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    "text": "For Jesus is my living bread.",
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    "text": "I know not what may soon betide,",
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    "text": "Or how my wants shall be supplied;",
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    "text": "Though sin would fill me with distress,",
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    "text": "The throne of grace I dare address,",
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    "text": "For Jesus is my righteousness.",
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    "text": "Though faint my pray rs, and cold my love,",
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    "text": "My steadfast hope shall not remove",
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    "text": "While Jesus intercedes above.",
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    "text": "Against me earth and hell combine,",
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    "text": "But on my side is power divine;",
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    "text": "Jesus is all, and he is mine.",
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