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    "text": "Let worldly minds the world pursue",
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    "text": "It has no charms for me;",
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    "text": "Once I admired its trifles too,",
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    "text": "Far from my heart be joys like these,",
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    "text": "As by the light of op’ning day",
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    "text": "The stars are all conceal’d;",
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    "text": "So earthly pleasures fade away",
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    "text": "Creatures no more divide my choice,",
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    "text": "I bid them all depart;",
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    "text": "His name and love and gracious voice",
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    "text": "Now, Lord, I would be thine alone,",
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    "text": "But may I hope that thou wilt own",
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    "text": "Yes! though of sinners I’m the worst,",
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    "text": "For if thou hadst not loved me first,",
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