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    "text": "Now let us join with hearts and tongues,",
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    "text": "And emulate the angels’ songs;",
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    "text": "Yea, sinners may address their King",
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    "text": "In songs that angels cannot sing.",
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    "text": "They praise the Lamb who once was slain;",
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    "text": "But we can add a higher strain⁠—",
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    "text": "Not only say “He suffer’d thus,",
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    "text": "But that “He suffer’d all for us.”",
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    "text": "When angels by transgression fell,",
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    "text": "Justice consign’d them all to hell;",
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    "text": "But mercy form’d a wondrous plan,",
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    "text": "Jesus, who pass’d the angels by,",
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    "text": "Assumed our flesh to bleed and die;",
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    "text": "And still he makes it his abode⁠—",
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    "text": "As man he fills the throne of God.",
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    "text": "Our next of kin, our Brother now,",
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    "text": "Is he to whom the angels bow;",
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    "text": "They join with us to praise his name,",
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    "text": "But we the nearest int’rest claim.",
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    "text": "But ah! how faint our praises rise!",
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    "text": "Sure, ’tis the wonder of the skies,",
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    "text": "That we, who share his richest love,",
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    "text": "So cold and unconcern’d should prove.",
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    "text": "Oh glorious hour! it comes with speed,",
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    "text": "When we from sin and darkness freed,",
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    "text": "Shall see the God who died for man,",
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    "text": "And praise him more than angels can.",
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