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    "text": "Through small the drops of falling rain",
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    "text": "If one be singly view’d,",
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    "text": "Collected, they o’erspread the plain.",
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    "text": "And form a mighty flood.",
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    "text": "The house it meets with in its course",
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    "text": "Should not be built on clay,",
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    "text": "Lest, with a wild, resistless force,",
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    "text": "Though for awhile it seem secure.",
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    "text": "It will not bear the shock",
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    "text": "Thus sinners think their evil deeds.",
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    "text": "Like drops of rain, are small;",
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    "text": "But it the power of thought exceeds",
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    "text": "To count the sum of all.",
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    "text": "One sin can raise, though small it seem.",
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    "text": "A flood to drown the soul;",
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    "text": "What then, when countless million stream⁠—",
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    "text": "Shall join to swell the whole!",
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    "text": "Yet, while they think the weather fair,",
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    "text": "If warn’d they smile or frown:",
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    "text": "But they will tremble and despair,",
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    "text": "When the fierce flood comes down.",
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    "text": "Oh! then on Jesus ground your hope.",
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    "text": "That Stone in Zion laid;",
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    "text": "Lest your poor building quickly drop",
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