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    "text": "Joy is a fruit that will not grow",
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    "text": "In Nature’s barren soil;",
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    "text": "All we can boast till Christ we know",
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    "text": "Is vanity and toil.",
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    "text": "But where the Lord has planted grace,",
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    "text": "A bleeding Saviour seen by faith,",
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    "text": "A sense of pard’ning love,",
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    "text": "A hope that triumphs over death,",
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    "text": "Give joys like those above.",
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    "text": "To take a glimpse within the veil,",
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    "text": "To know that God is mine,",
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    "text": "Are springs of joy that never fail,",
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    "text": "Unspeakable! divine!",
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    "text": "These are the joys which satisfy",
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    "text": "And sanctify the mind;",
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    "text": "No more, believers, mourn your lot,",
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    "text": "But if you are the Lord’s,",
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    "text": "Resign to them that know him not",
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