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    "text": "Darkness overspreads us here,",
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    "text": "But the night wears fast away;",
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    "text": "Jacob’s Star will soon appear,",
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    "text": "Leading on eternal day!",
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    "text": "Now ’tis time to rouse from sleep,",
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    "text": "Trim our lamps, and stand prepared,",
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    "text": "For our Lord strict watch to keep,",
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    "text": "Let his people courage take,",
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    "text": "Bear with a submissive mind",
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    "text": "All they suffer for his sake⁠—",
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    "text": "Rich amends they soon will find:",
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    "text": "He will wipe away their tears,",
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    "text": "Though already saved by grace,",
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    "text": "From the hour we first believed;",
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    "text": "Yet while sin and war have place,",
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    "text": "We have but a part received:",
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    "text": "Still we for salvation wait,",
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    "text": "Every hour it nearer comes!",
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    "text": "Death will break the prison gate",
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    "text": "Sinners, what can you expect,",
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    "text": "You who now the Saviour dare,",
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    "text": "Break his laws, his grace reject?",
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    "text": "You must stand before his bar!",
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    "text": "Tremble, lest he say, depart!",
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    "text": "Oh! the horrors of that sound!",
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    "text": "Lord, make every careless heart",
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    "text": "Seek thee while thou may’st be found.",
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