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   {
    "text": "How tedious and tasteless the hours",
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    "text": "When Jesus no longer I see;",
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    "text": "Sweet prospects, sweet birds, and sweet flowers,",
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    "text": "Have all lost their sweetness with me:",
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   {
    "text": "The midsummer sun shines but dim.",
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    "text": "The fields strive in vain to look gay,",
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    "text": "But when I am happy in him,",
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    "text": "December’s as pleasant as May.",
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    "text": "His name yields the richest perfume,",
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    "text": "And sweeter than music his voice,",
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   {
    "text": "His presence disperses my gloom,",
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    "text": "And makes all within me rejoice;",
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   {
    "text": "I should, were he always so nigh,",
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   {
    "text": "Have nothing to wish or to fear;",
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   {
    "text": "No mortal so happy as I,",
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    "text": "My summer would last all the year.",
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    "text": "Content with beholding his face,",
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    "text": "My all to his pleasure resign’d,",
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    "text": "No changes of season or place",
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   {
    "text": "Would make any change in my mind:",
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   {
    "text": "While bless’d with a sense of his love,",
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    "text": "A palace a toy would appear;",
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    "text": "And prisons would palaces prove",
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    "text": "If Jesus would dwell with me there.",
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    "text": "Dear Lord, if indeed I am thine,",
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    "text": "If thou art my sun and my song,",
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    "text": "Say, why do I languish and pine,",
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    "text": "And why are my winters so long?",
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    "text": "O drive these dark clouds from my sky,",
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    "text": "Thy soul-cheering presence restore;",
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   {
    "text": "Or take me unto thee on high,",
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    "text": "Where winter and clouds are no more.",
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