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    "text": "Oh! speak that gracious word again,",
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    "text": "And cheer my drooping heart;",
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    "text": "No voice but thine can soothe my pain,",
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    "text": "And canst thou still vouchsafe to own",
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    "text": "A wretch so vile as I?",
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    "text": "And may I still approach thy throne,",
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    "text": "And Abba, Father, cry?",
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    "text": "Oh then let saints and angels join,",
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    "text": "And help me to proclaim",
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    "text": "The grace that heal’d a breach like mine,",
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    "text": "And put my foes to shame!",
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    "text": "How oft did Satan’s cruel boast",
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    "text": "He told me I was surely lost,",
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    "text": "Guilt made me fear, lest all were true",
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    "text": "The lying tempter said;",
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    "text": "But now the Lord appears in view⁠—",
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    "text": "My Saviour, by his powerful word,",
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    "text": "Has turn’d my night to day;",
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    "text": "And his salvation’s joys restored",
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    "text": "Which I had sinn’d away.",
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    "text": "Dear Lord, I wonder and adore,",
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    "text": "Thy grace is all divine;",
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    "text": "Oh! keep me that I sin no more",
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    "text": "Against such love as thine!",
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