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    "text": "Blinded in youth by Satan’s arts,",
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    "text": "The world to our unpractised hearts",
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    "text": "A flatt’ring prospect shows;",
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    "text": "Our fancy forms a thousand schemes",
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    "text": "Of gay delights, and golden dreams.",
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    "text": "And undisturb’d repose.",
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    "text": "So in the desert’s dreary waste,",
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    "text": "By magic power produced in haste,",
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    "text": "(As ancient fables say,)",
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    "text": "Castles and groves and music sweet,",
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    "text": "The senses of the trav’ler meet,",
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    "text": "But while he listens with surprise,",
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    "text": "The charm dissolves, the vision dies⁠—",
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    "text": "’Twas but enchanted ground.",
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    "text": "Thus if the Lord our spirit touch,",
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    "text": "The world, which promised us so much,",
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    "text": "At first we start and feel distress’d,",
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    "text": "Convinced we never can have rest",
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    "text": "In such a wretched place;",
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    "text": "But he whose mercy breaks the charm,",
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    "text": "Reveals his own almighty arm,",
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    "text": "And bids us seek his face.",
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    "text": "Then we begin to live indeed,",
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    "text": "When from our sin and bondage freed",
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    "text": "By this beloved Friend:",
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    "text": "We follow him from day to day,",
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    "text": "Assured of grace through all the way,",
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    "text": "And glory at the end.",
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