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    "text": "When descending from the sky",
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   {
    "text": "The Bridegroom shall appear,",
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   {
    "text": "And the solemn midnight cry",
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    "text": "Shall call professors near,",
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    "text": "How the sound our hearts will damp⁠—",
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    "text": "How will shame o’erspread each face",
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    "text": "If we only have a lamp",
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    "text": "Without the oil of grace!",
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    "text": "Foolish virgins then will wake",
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    "text": "And seek for a supply;",
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    "text": "But in vain the pains they take",
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    "text": "To borrow or to buy:",
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    "text": "Then with those they now despise",
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    "text": "Earnestly they’ll wish to share;",
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    "text": "But the best among the wise",
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    "text": "Will have no oil to spare.",
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    "text": "Wise are they, and truly blest,",
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    "text": "Who then shall ready be!",
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    "text": "But despair will seize the rest,",
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    "text": "And dreadful misery:",
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    "text": "Once, they’ll cry, we scorn’d to doubt,",
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    "text": "Though in lies our trust we put;",
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    "text": "Now our lamp of hope is out⁠—",
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    "text": "The door of mercy shut.",
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   {
    "text": "If they then presume to plead,",
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    "text": "“Lord, open to us now;",
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   {
    "text": "We on earth have heard and pray’d,",
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   {
    "text": "And with thy saints did bow:”",
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   {
    "text": "He will answer from his throne",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Though you with my people mix’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet to me you ne’er were known;",
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    "text": "Depart, your doom is fix’d.”",
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    "text": "Oh that none who worship here",
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    "text": "May hear that word, depart!",
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   {
    "text": "Lord, impress a godly fear",
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    "text": "On each professor’s heart:",
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   {
    "text": "Help us, Lord, to search the camp,",
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   {
    "text": "Let us not ourselves beguile,",
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   {
    "text": "Trusting to a dying lamp,",
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    "text": "Without a stock of oil.",
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