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 "title": "The Great Tribunal",
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    "text": "John in vision saw the day",
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   {
    "text": "When the Judge will hasten down;",
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   {
    "text": "Heaven and earth shall flee away",
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    "text": "From the terror of his frown.",
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    "text": "Dead and living, small and great,",
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    "text": "Raised from the earth and sea,",
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    "text": "At his bar shall hear their fate:",
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    "text": "What will then become of me?",
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    "text": "Can I bear his awful looks?",
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    "text": "Shall I stand in judgment then,",
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    "text": "When I see the open’d books,",
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    "text": "Written by th’Almighty’s pen?",
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    "text": "If he to remembrance bring,",
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    "text": "And expose to public view,",
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    "text": "Every work and secret thing,",
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    "text": "Ah, my soul, what canst thou do?",
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    "text": "When the list shall be produced",
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   {
    "text": "Of the talents I enjoy’d,",
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    "text": "Means and mercies how abused,",
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    "text": "Time and strength how misemploy’d,",
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    "text": "Conscience, then compell’d to read,",
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    "text": "Must allow the charge is true;",
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    "text": "Say, my soul, what canst thou plead⁠—",
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    "text": "In that hour what wilt thou do?",
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    "text": "But the book of life I see;",
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    "text": "May my name be written there:",
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    "text": "Then from guilt and danger free,",
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    "text": "Glad I’ll meet him in the air.",
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    "text": "That’s the book I hope to plead⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis the gospel open’d wide.",
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    "text": "Lord, I am a wretch indeed⁠—",
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    "text": "I have sinn’d, but thou hast died.",
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    "text": "Now my soul knows what to do;",
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    "text": "Thus I shall with boldness stand,",
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    "text": "Number’d with the faithful few,",
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    "text": "Own’d and saved at thy right hand.",
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    "text": "If thou help a feeble worm",
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    "text": "To believe thy promise now,",
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    "text": "Justice will at last confirm",
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   {
    "text": "What thy mercy wrought below.",
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