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    "text": "When Peter boasted, soon he fell,",
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    "text": "Yet was by grace restored;",
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    "text": "A voice it has, and helping hand,",
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    "text": "He said, “Whatever others do,",
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    "text": "Yet soon amidst a murd’rous crew",
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    "text": "While he blasphemed he heard the cock,",
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    "text": "Deliver’d thus from Satan’s snare,",
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    "text": "His Saviour’s look he could not bear,",
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    "text": "But sure the faithful cock had crow’d",
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    "text": "As I, like Peter, vows have made,",
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    "text": "So conscience, like the cock, upbraids",
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    "text": "Lord Jesus, hear a sinner’s cry,",
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    "text": "My broken peace renew;",
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    "text": "And grant one pitying look, that I",
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