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    "text": "From Sheba a distant report",
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    "text": "Of Solomon’s glory and fame",
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    "text": "Invited the queen to his court,",
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    "text": "But all was outdone when she came:",
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    "text": "She cried with a pleasing surprise,",
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    "text": "When first she before him appear’d,",
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    "text": "“How much what I see with my eyes",
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    "text": "Surpasses the rumour I heard!”",
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    "text": "When once to Jerusalem come",
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    "text": "The treasure and train she had brought,",
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    "text": "The wealth she possessed at home",
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    "text": "His house, his attendants, his throne,",
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    "text": "All struck her with wonder and awe;",
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    "text": "The glory of Solomon shone",
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    "text": "But Solomon most she admired,",
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    "text": "Whose spirit conducted the whole⁠—",
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    "text": "His wisdom, which God had inspired,",
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    "text": "His bounty, and greatness of soul.",
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    "text": "Of all the hard questions she put",
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    "text": "A ready solution he show’d⁠—",
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    "text": "Exceeded her wish and her suit,",
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    "text": "And more than she ask’d him bestow’d.",
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    "text": "Thus I, when the gospel proclaim’d",
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    "text": "The Saviour’s great name in my ears,",
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    "text": "The wisdom for which he is famed,",
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    "text": "The love which to sinners he bears,",
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    "text": "I long’d, and I was not denied,",
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    "text": "That I in his presence might bow;",
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    "text": "I saw, and transported I cried,",
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    "text": "“A greater than Solomon thou!”",
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    "text": "My conscience no comfort could find,",
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    "text": "By doubt and hard questions opposed;",
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    "text": "But he restored peace to my mind,",
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    "text": "And answer’d each doubt I proposed.",
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    "text": "Beholding me poor and distress’d,",
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    "text": "His bounty supplied all my wants;",
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    "text": "My pray’r could have never express’d",
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    "text": "So much as this Solomon grants.",
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    "text": "I heard and was slow to believe,",
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    "text": "But now with my eyes I behold",
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    "text": "Much more than my heart could conceive,",
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    "text": "Or language could ever have told.",
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   {
    "text": "How happy thy servants must be",
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    "text": "Who always before thee appear!",
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    "text": "Vouchsafe, Lord, this blessing to me,",
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   {
    "text": "I find it is good to be here.",
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