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    "text": "Legion was my name by nature,",
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   {
    "text": "Satan raged within my breast,",
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   {
    "text": "Never misery was greater,",
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   {
    "text": "Never sinner more possess’d:",
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   {
    "text": "Mischievous to all around me,",
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   {
    "text": "To myself the greatest foe;",
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    "text": "Thus I was when Jesus found me,",
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    "text": "Fill’d with madness, sin, and woe.",
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    "text": "Yet in this forlorn condition,",
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   {
    "text": "When he came to see me free,",
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   {
    "text": "I replied to my Physician,",
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   {
    "text": "“What have I to do with thee?”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But he would not be prevented,",
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   {
    "text": "Rescued me against my will:",
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   {
    "text": "Had he stayed till I consented",
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    "text": "I had been a captive still.",
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    "text": "“Satan, though thou fain wouldst have it,",
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    "text": "Know this soul is none of thine;",
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   {
    "text": "I have shed my blood to save it,",
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   {
    "text": "Now I challenge it for mine;",
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   {
    "text": "Though it long has thee resembled,",
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   {
    "text": "Henceforth it shall me obey:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thus He spoke, while Satan trembled,",
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   {
    "text": "Gnash’d his teeth, and fled away.",
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   {
    "text": "Thus my frantic soul He heal’d,",
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   {
    "text": "Bid my sins and sorrows cease;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Take,” said he, “my pardon sealed,",
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   {
    "text": "I have saved thee⁠—go in peace.”",
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   {
    "text": "Rather take me, Lord, to heaven,",
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   {
    "text": "Now thy love and grace I know;",
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   {
    "text": "Since thou hast my sins forgiven,",
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   {
    "text": "Why should I remain below?",
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    "text": "“Love,” he said, “will sweeten labours;",
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   {
    "text": "Thou hast something yet to do;",
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   {
    "text": "Go and tell your friends and neighbours",
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   {
    "text": "What my love has done for you;",
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   {
    "text": "Live to manifest my glory,",
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   {
    "text": "Wait for heaven a little space:",
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   {
    "text": "Sinners, when they hear thy story,",
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   {
    "text": "Will repent and seek my face.”",
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