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    "text": "God with one piercing glance looks through",
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    "text": "Creation’s wide-extended frame;",
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    "text": "And days and ages are the same.",
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    "text": "Sinners who dare provoke his face,",
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    "text": "Who on his patience long presume,",
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    "text": "And trifle out his day of grace,",
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    "text": "Will find he has a day of doom,",
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    "text": "As pangs the labouring woman feels,",
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    "text": "Or as the thief in midnight sleep,",
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    "text": "So comes that day for which the wheels",
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    "text": "Of time their ceaseless motion keep!",
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    "text": "Hark! from the sky the trump proclaims",
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    "text": "Jesus the Judge approaching nigh!",
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    "text": "See the creation wrapt in flames,",
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    "text": "First kindled by his vengeful eye!",
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    "text": "When thus the mountains melt like wax;",
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    "text": "When earth and air and sea shall burn;",
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    "text": "When all the frame of nature breaks;",
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    "text": "Poor sinner, whither wilt thou turn?",
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    "text": "The puny works which feeble men",
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    "text": "Now boast or covet or admire;",
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    "text": "Their pomp and arts and treasures then",
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    "text": "Shall perish in one common fire.",
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    "text": "Lord, fix our hearts and hopes above,",
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    "text": "Since all below to ruin tends;",
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    "text": "Here may we trust, obey, and love,",
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    "text": "And there be found amongst thy friends.",
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