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    "text": "How kind the good Samaritan",
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    "text": "To him who fell among the thieves!",
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    "text": "Thus Jesus pities fallen man,",
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    "text": "And heals the wounds the soul receives.",
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    "text": "Oh! I remember well the day",
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    "text": "When, sorely wounded, nearly slain,",
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    "text": "Like that poor man, I bleeding lay,",
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    "text": "And groan’d for help, but groan’d in vain.",
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    "text": "Men saw me in this helpless case,",
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    "text": "And pass’d without compassion by;",
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    "text": "Each neighbour turn’d away his face,",
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    "text": "Unmoved by my mournful cry.",
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    "text": "But He whose name had been my scorn",
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    "text": "(As Jews Samaritans despise)",
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    "text": "Came, when he saw me thus forlorn,",
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    "text": "Gently he raised me from the ground,",
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    "text": "Press’d me to lean upon his arm,",
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    "text": "And into every gaping wound",
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    "text": "He pour’d his own all-healing balm.",
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    "text": "Unto his church my steps he led,",
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    "text": "The house prepared for sinners lost,",
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    "text": "Gave charge I should be clothed and fed,",
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    "text": "And took upon him all the cost.",
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    "text": "Thus saved from death, from want secured,",
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   {
    "text": "I wait till he again shall come",
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   {
    "text": "(When I shall be completely cured,)",
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    "text": "And take me to his heavenly home.",
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    "text": "There, through eternal, boundless days,",
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   {
    "text": "When Nature’s wheel no longer rolls,",
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    "text": "How shall I love, adore, and praise",
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   {
    "text": "This good Samaritan to souls!",
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