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 "title": "The Old and New Creation",
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 "poet": "John Newton",
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    "text": "That was a wonder-working word",
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    "text": "Which could the vast creation raise!",
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   {
    "text": "Angels, attendant on their Lord",
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    "text": "Admired the plan, and sung his praise.",
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    "text": "From what a dark and shapeless mass",
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    "text": "All nature sprang at his command!",
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    "text": "Let there be light! and light there was,",
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    "text": "And sun and stars and sea and land.",
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    "text": "With equal speed the earth and seas",
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    "text": "Their mighty Maker’s voice obey’d;",
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    "text": "He spake, and straight the plants and trees",
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    "text": "And birds and beasts and man were made.",
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    "text": "But man, the lord and crown of all,",
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    "text": "By sin his honour soon defaced,",
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    "text": "His heart (how alter’d since the fall!)",
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    "text": "Is dark, deform’d, and void and waste.",
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    "text": "The new creation of the soul",
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    "text": "Does now no less his power display,",
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    "text": "Than when he form’d the mighty whole,",
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    "text": "And kindled darkness into day.",
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    "text": "Though self-destroy’d, O Lord, we are,",
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    "text": "Yet let us feel what thou canst do;",
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    "text": "Thy word the ruin can repair,",
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    "text": "And all our hearts create anew.",
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