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    "text": "Before Elisha’s gate",
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    "text": "The Syrian leper stood;",
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    "text": "But could not brook to wait⁠—",
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    "text": "He deem’d himself too good:",
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    "text": "“Have I this journey come,",
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    "text": "Would washing make me clean;",
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    "text": "Damascus’ rivers are as good.”",
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    "text": "Thus, by his foolish pride,",
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    "text": "Howe’er at length he tried,",
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    "text": "Soon as the pride was brought to yield",
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    "text": "The leprosy was quickly heal’d.",
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    "text": "Leprous and proud as he,",
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    "text": "To Jesus thus I came,",
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    "text": "From sin to set me free,",
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    "text": "When first I heard his fame:",
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    "text": "Surely, thought I, my pompous train",
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    "text": "Of vows and tears will notice gain.",
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    "text": "My heart devised the way",
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    "text": "Which I supposed he’d take;",
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    "text": "And when I found delay,",
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    "text": "Was ready to go back:",
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    "text": "Had he some painful task enjoin’d,",
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    "text": "I to performance seem’d inclined.",
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    "text": "When by his word he spake,",
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    "text": "“That fountain open’d see;",
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    "text": "’Twas open’d for thy sake⁠—",
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    "text": "“Go wash, and thou art free;”",
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    "text": "Oh! how did my proud heart gainsay⁠—",
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    "text": "At length I trial made,",
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    "text": "When I had much endured;",
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    "text": "The message I obey’d⁠—",
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    "text": "I wash’d, and I was cured.",
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    "text": "Sinners, this healing fountain try,",
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    "text": "Which cleansed a wretch so vile as I.",
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