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    "text": "See the gloomy gath’ring cloud,",
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   {
    "text": "Hanging o’er a sinful land!",
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   {
    "text": "Sure the Lord proclaims aloud,",
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   {
    "text": "Times of trouble are at hand.",
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    "text": "Happy they who love his name,",
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    "text": "They shall always find him near;",
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    "text": "Though the earth were wrapp’d in flame,",
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    "text": "They have no just cause for fear.",
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    "text": "Hark! his voice in accents mild,",
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    "text": "(Oh, how comforting and sweet!)",
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    "text": "Speaks to every humble child,",
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    "text": "Pointing out a sure retreat!",
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    "text": "Come and in my chambers hide,",
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    "text": "To my saints of old well known;",
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    "text": "There you safely may abide",
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    "text": "Till the storm be overblown.",
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    "text": "You have only to repose",
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    "text": "On my wisdom, love, and care;",
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    "text": "When my wrath consumes my foes,",
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    "text": "Mercy shall my children spare:",
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    "text": "While they perish in the flood,",
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    "text": "You that bear my holy mark,",
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    "text": "Sprinkled with atoning blood,",
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    "text": "Shall be safe within the ark.",
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    "text": "Sinners, see the ark prepared!",
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    "text": "Haste to enter while there’s room!",
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    "text": "Though the Lord his arm has bared,",
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    "text": "Mercy still retards your doom:",
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    "text": "Seek him while there yet is hope,",
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    "text": "Ere the day of grace be past,",
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    "text": "Lest in wrath he give you up,",
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    "text": "And this call should prove your last.",
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