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 "title": "Manna",
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    "text": "Manna to Israel well supplied",
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    "text": "The want of other bread;",
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    "text": "While God is able to provide,",
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    "text": "His people shall be fed.",
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    "text": "(Thus though the corn and wine should fail,",
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    "text": "And creature-streams be dry,",
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    "text": "The prayer of faith will still prevail",
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    "text": "For blessings from on high.)",
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    "text": "Of his kind care how sweet a proof;",
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    "text": "It suited every taste:",
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    "text": "Who gather’d most had just enough⁠—",
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    "text": "Enough who gather’d least.",
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    "text": "’Tis thus our gracious Lord provides",
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    "text": "Our comforts and our cares;",
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    "text": "His own unerring hand divides,",
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    "text": "And gives us each our shares.",
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    "text": "He knows how much the weak can bear,",
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    "text": "The strongest have no strength to spare,",
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    "text": "Daily they saw the manna come",
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    "text": "And cover all the ground;",
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    "text": "But what they tried to keep at home",
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    "text": "Corrupted soon was found.",
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    "text": "Vain their attempt to store it up,",
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    "text": "This was to tempt the Lord:",
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    "text": "Israel must live by faith and hope,",
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    "text": "And not upon a hoard.",
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