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 "title": "Rejoice the Soul of Thy Servant",
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   {
    "text": "When my pray’rs are a burden and task.",
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   {
    "text": "No wonder I little receive;",
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   {
    "text": "Lord, make me willing to ask,",
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   {
    "text": "Since thou art so ready to give:",
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   {
    "text": "Although I am bought with thy blood,",
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   {
    "text": "And all thy salvation is mine,",
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    "text": "At a distance from thee, my chief good.",
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    "text": "I wander and languish and pine.",
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   {
    "text": "Of thy goodness of old, when I read,",
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   {
    "text": "To those who were sinners like me,",
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   {
    "text": "Why may I not wrestle and plead,",
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    "text": "With them a partaker to be?",
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   {
    "text": "Thine arm is not shorten’d since then,",
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    "text": "And those who believe in thy name",
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    "text": "Ever find thou art Yea and Amen,",
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    "text": "Through all generations the same.",
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    "text": "While my spirit within me is press’d",
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    "text": "With sorrow, temptation, and fear,",
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   {
    "text": "Like John I would flee to thy breast,",
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   {
    "text": "And pour my complaints in thine ear:",
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   {
    "text": "How happy and favour’d was he",
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   {
    "text": "Who could on thy bosom repose!",
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   {
    "text": "Might this favour be granted to me,",
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   {
    "text": "I’d smile at the rage of my foes.",
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    "text": "I have heard of thy wonderful name,",
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   {
    "text": "How great and exalted thou art;",
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   {
    "text": "But ah! I confess to my shame,",
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   {
    "text": "It faintly impresses my heart:",
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   {
    "text": "The beams of thy glory display,",
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   {
    "text": "As Peter once saw thee appear;",
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   {
    "text": "That, transported like him, I might say,",
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   {
    "text": "“It is good for my soul to be here.”",
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    "text": "What a sorrow and weight didst thou feel,",
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   {
    "text": "When nail’d, for my sake, to the tree!",
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   {
    "text": "My heart sure is harder than steel,",
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   {
    "text": "To feel no more sorrow for thee:",
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   {
    "text": "Oh! let me with Thomas descry",
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   {
    "text": "The wounds in thy hands and thy side,",
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   {
    "text": "And have feelings like his when I cry,",
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   {
    "text": "“My God and my Saviour has died!”",
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    "text": "But if thou hast appointed me still",
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    "text": "To wrestle and suiter and fight;",
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   {
    "text": "make me resign’d to thy will,",
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   {
    "text": "For all thy appointments are right:",
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   {
    "text": "This mercy, at least I entreat,",
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   {
    "text": "That, knowing how vile I have been,",
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   {
    "text": "I, with Mary, may wait at thy feet,",
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   {
    "text": "And weep o’er the pardon of sin.",
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