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 "title": "My Name Is Jacob",
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    "text": "Nay, I cannot let thee go",
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    "text": "Till a blessing thou bestow:",
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    "text": "Do not turn away thy face,",
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    "text": "Mine’s an urgent, pressing case.",
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    "text": "Dost thou ask me who I am?",
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   {
    "text": "Ah, my Lord, thou know’st my name!",
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    "text": "Yet the question gives a plea",
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    "text": "To support my suit with thee.",
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    "text": "Thou didst once a wretch behold,",
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    "text": "Scorn thy grace, thy power defy,",
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    "text": "That poor rebel, Lord, was I.",
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    "text": "Once a sinner near despair",
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    "text": "Sought thy mercy-seat by prayer;",
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    "text": "Mercy heard and set him free⁠—",
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    "text": "Lord, that mercy came to me.",
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    "text": "Many years have pass’d since then,",
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    "text": "Many changes I have seen,",
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    "text": "Yet have been upheld till now;",
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   {
    "text": "Who could hold me up but thou?",
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    "text": "Thou hast help’d in every need,",
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    "text": "This emboldens me to plead;",
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    "text": "After so much mercy past,",
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    "text": "Canst thou let me sink at last?",
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    "text": "No⁠—I must maintain my hold;",
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    "text": "’Tis thy goodness makes me bold;",
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    "text": "I can no denial take,",
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    "text": "When I plead for Jesu’s sake.",
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