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    "text": "Incarnate God! the soul that knows",
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    "text": "Thy name’s mysterious power",
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    "text": "In vain the fowler spreads his net,",
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    "text": "When, like a baneful pestilence,",
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    "text": "No midnight terrors haunt their bed,",
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    "text": "No arrow wounds by day;",
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    "text": "Unhurt on serpents they shall tread,",
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    "text": "Angels, unseen, attend the saints,",
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    "text": "The angels’ Lord himself is nigh",
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    "text": "To them that love his name⁠—",
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    "text": "Crosses and changes are their lot",
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    "text": "Long as they sojourn here;",
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    "text": "But since their Saviour changes not,",
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    "text": "What have the saints to fear?",
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