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 "title": "Joseph Made Known to His Brethren",
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 "poet": "John Newton",
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 "container": "Book I On Select Texts of Scripture",
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  "year": 1779,
  "venue": "Olney Hymns (1779)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "When Joseph his brethren beheld",
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    "text": "Afflicted and trembling with fear,",
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    "text": "His heart with compassion was fill’d;",
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   {
    "text": "From weeping he could not forbear.",
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   {
    "text": "Awhile his behaviour was rough,",
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    "text": "To bring their past sins to their mind;",
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    "text": "But when they were humbled enough,",
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    "text": "He hasted to show himself kind.",
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    "text": "How little they thought it was he",
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    "text": "Whom they had ill-treated and sold!",
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    "text": "How great their confusion must be,",
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   {
    "text": "As soon as his name he had told!",
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   {
    "text": "“I am Joseph, your brother,” he said,",
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   {
    "text": "“And still to my heart you are dear;",
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    "text": "You sold me, and thought I was dead,",
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    "text": "But God for your sakes sent me here.”",
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    "text": "Though greatly distressed before,",
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   {
    "text": "When charged with purloining the cup,",
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    "text": "They now were confounded much more⁠—",
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    "text": "Not one of them dared to look up.",
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   {
    "text": "“Can Joseph, whom we would have slain.",
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   {
    "text": "Forgive us the evil we did?",
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    "text": "And will he our households maintain?",
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    "text": "O this is a brother indeed!”",
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    "text": "Thus dragg’d by my conscience I came,",
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    "text": "And laden with guilt, to the Lord,",
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    "text": "Surrounded with terror and shame,",
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    "text": "Unable to utter a word.",
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    "text": "At first he look’d stern and severe,",
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   {
    "text": "What anguish then pierced my heart!",
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   {
    "text": "Expecting each moment to hear",
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   {
    "text": "The sentence, “Thou cursed, depart!”",
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    "text": "But, O what surprise when he spoke,",
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   {
    "text": "While tenderness beam’d in his face!",
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   {
    "text": "My heart then to pieces was broke,",
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    "text": "O’erwhelm’d and confounded by grace:",
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   {
    "text": "“Poor sinner, I know thee full well,",
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   {
    "text": "By thee I was sold and was slain;",
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   {
    "text": "But I died to redeem thee from hell,",
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   {
    "text": "And raise thee in glory to reign.",
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    "text": "“I am Jesus, whom thou hast blasphemed,",
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    "text": "And crucified often afresh;",
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   {
    "text": "But let me henceforth be esteemed",
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    "text": "Thy brother, thy bone, and thy flesh:",
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   {
    "text": "My pardon I freely bestow,",
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   {
    "text": "Thy wants I will fully supply;",
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   {
    "text": "I’ll guide thee and guard thee below,",
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   {
    "text": "And soon will remove thee on high.",
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    "text": "“Go, publish to sinners around,",
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   {
    "text": "That they may be willing to come,",
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   {
    "text": "The mercy which now you have found,",
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   {
    "text": "And tell them that yet there is room.”",
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   {
    "text": "O sinners, the message obey!",
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   {
    "text": "No more vain excuses pretend;",
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   {
    "text": "But come without further delay,",
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   {
    "text": "To Jesus, our brother and friend.",
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