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    "text": "Alas! Elisha’s servant cried,",
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    "text": "When he the Syrian army spied;",
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    "text": "Straightway he saw, with other eyes,",
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    "text": "Like him of old, I faint and fear;",
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    "text": "Like him, by faith, with joy I see",
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    "text": "The saints espouse my cause by pray’r,",
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    "text": "Mine is the promise seal’d with blood,",
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