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    "text": "My soul once had its plenteous years,",
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    "text": "And throve, with peace and comfort fill’d,",
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    "text": "Like the fat kine and ripen’d ears",
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    "text": "Which Pharaoh in his dream beheld.",
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    "text": "With pleasing frames and grace received,",
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    "text": "With means and ordinances fed,",
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    "text": "How happy for a while I lived,",
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    "text": "And little fear’d the want of bread!",
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    "text": "But famine came, and left no sign",
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    "text": "Of all the plenty I had seen;",
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    "text": "Like the dry ears and half-starved kine,",
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    "text": "I then look’d wither’d, faint, and lean.",
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    "text": "To Joseph the Egyptians went;",
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    "text": "To Jesus I made known my case:",
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    "text": "He, when my little stock was spent,",
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    "text": "Open’d his magazine of grace.",
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    "text": "For he the time of dearth foresaw,",
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    "text": "And made provision long before;",
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    "text": "That famish’d souls, like me, might draw",
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    "text": "Supplies from his unbounded store.",
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    "text": "Now on his bounty I depend,",
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    "text": "And live from fear of dearth secure:",
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    "text": "Maintain’d by such a mighty friend,",
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    "text": "I cannot want till he is poor.",
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    "text": "O sinners, hear his gracious call!",
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    "text": "His mercy’s door stands open wide;",
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    "text": "He has enough to feed you all,",
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    "text": "And none who come shall be denied.",
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