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    "text": "A garden contemplation suits,",
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    "text": "Sweeter than all the flow’rs and fruits",
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    "text": "With which the spot is fill’d.",
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    "text": "Eden was Adam’s dwelling-place",
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    "text": "While blest with innocence;",
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    "text": "But sin o’er whelm’d him with disgrace?",
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    "text": "And drove the rebel thence.",
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    "text": "Oft as the garden-walk we tread",
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    "text": "We should bemoan his fall;",
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    "text": "The trespass of our legal head",
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    "text": "The garden of Gethsemane",
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    "text": "Oppress’d with woe, to set us free",
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    "text": "How stupid we, who can forget,",
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    "text": "With gardens in our sight,",
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    "text": "His agonies and bloody sweat",
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    "text": "In that tremendous night!",
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    "text": "His church as a fair garden stands,",
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    "text": "Which walls of love enclose;",
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    "text": "Each tree is planted by his hands,",
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    "text": "Believing hearts are gardens too,",
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    "text": "For grace has sown its seeds",
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    "text": "Such themes to those who Jesus love",
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    "text": "May constant joys afford,",
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    "text": "And make a barren desert prove",
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    "text": "The garden of the Lord.",
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