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 "title": "Satan Returning",
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    "text": "When Jesus claims the sinner’s heart,",
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    "text": "Where Satan ruled before,",
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    "text": "And dares return no more.",
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    "text": "But when he goes without constraint,",
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    "text": "And wanders from his home,",
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    "text": "Although withdrawn, ’tis but a feint⁠—",
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    "text": "He means again to come.",
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    "text": "Some outward change perhaps is seen",
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    "text": "If Satan quit the place;",
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   {
    "text": "But though the house seem swept and clean.",
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    "text": "’Tis destitute of grace.",
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    "text": "Except the Saviour dwell and reign",
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    "text": "Within the sinner’s mind,",
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    "text": "Satan, when he returns again,",
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    "text": "Will easy entrance find.",
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    "text": "With rage and malice sevenfold",
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    "text": "He then resumes his sway;",
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    "text": "No more by checks to be control’d,",
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    "text": "No more to go away.",
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    "text": "The sinner’s former state was bad,",
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    "text": "But worse the latter far;",
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    "text": "He lives possessed, blind, and mad,",
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    "text": "And dies in dark despair.",
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    "text": "Lord, save me from this dreadful end!",
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   {
    "text": "And from this heart of mine",
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    "text": "O drive and keep away the fiend",
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   {
    "text": "Who fears no voice but thine.",
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