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    "text": "As needles point towards the pole",
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    "text": "When touch’d by the magnetic stone;",
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    "text": "So faith in Jesus gives the soul",
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    "text": "Till then, by blinded passions led,",
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    "text": "In search of fancied good we range,",
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    "text": "The paths of disappointment tread,",
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    "text": "But when the Holy Ghost imparts",
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    "text": "A knowledge of the Saviour’s love,",
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    "text": "Our wand’ring, weary, restless hearts",
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    "text": "Now a new principle takes place,",
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    "text": "By love’s pure light we soon perceive",
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    "text": "Our noblest bliss and proper end;",
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    "text": "Thus, borne along by faith and hope,",
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    "text": "We feel the Saviour’s words are true;",
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    "text": "“And I, if I be lifted up,",
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    "text": "Will draw the sinner upward too.”",
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