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    "text": "Though the morn may be serene⁠—",
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    "text": "Not a threat’ning cloud be seen,",
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    "text": "Who can undertake to say",
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   {
    "text": "’Twill be pleasant all the day?",
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    "text": "Tempests suddenly may rise,",
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    "text": "Darkness overspread the skies,",
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    "text": "Lightnings flash and thunders roar,",
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    "text": "Ere a short-lived day be o’er.",
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    "text": "Often thus the child of grace",
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    "text": "Enters on his Christian race;",
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    "text": "Guilt and fear are overborne,",
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    "text": "’Tis with him a summer’s morn:",
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    "text": "While his new-felt joys abound,",
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    "text": "All things seem to smile around;",
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    "text": "And he hopes it will be fair",
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    "text": "All the day and all the year.",
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    "text": "Should we warn him of a change",
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    "text": "He would think the caution strange;",
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    "text": "He no change or trouble fears",
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    "text": "Till the gath’ring storm appears;",
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    "text": "Till dark clouds his sun conceal,",
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    "text": "Till temptation’s power he feel;",
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    "text": "Then he trembles and looks pale,",
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    "text": "All his hopes and courage fail.",
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    "text": "But the wonder-working Lord",
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    "text": "Soothes the tempest by his word;",
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    "text": "Stills the thunder, stops the rain,",
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    "text": "And his sun breaks forth again:",
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    "text": "Soon the cloud again returns,",
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    "text": "Now he joys, and now he mourns;",
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    "text": "Oft his sky is overcast",
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    "text": "Ere the day of life be past.",
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    "text": "Tried believers too can say,",
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    "text": "In the course of one short day,",
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    "text": "Though the morning has been fair,",
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    "text": "Proved a golden hour of pray’r,",
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    "text": "Sin and Satan, long ere night,",
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    "text": "Have their comforts put to flight;",
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    "text": "Ah! what heart-felt peace and joy",
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    "text": "Unexpected storms destroy!",
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    "text": "Dearest Saviour, call us soon",
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    "text": "To thy high eternal noon;",
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    "text": "Never there shall tempest rise,",
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    "text": "To conceal thee from our eyes:",
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   {
    "text": "Satan shall no more deceive,",
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    "text": "We no more thy Spirit grieve;",
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    "text": "But, through cloudless, endless days,",
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    "text": "Sound to golden harps thy praise.",
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