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    "text": "Supported by the word,",
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    "text": "Though in himself a worm,",
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    "text": "The servant of the Lord",
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    "text": "The haughty king in vain,",
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    "text": "To golden gods to bow:",
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    "text": "The furnace could not make them fear,",
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    "text": "Which charged them not to pray:",
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    "text": "Daniel still bow’d his knee,",
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    "text": "And worshipp’d thrice a day.",
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    "text": "Trusting in God, he fear’d not men,",
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    "text": "Secure they might refuse",
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    "text": "Compliance with such laws;",
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    "text": "For what had they to lose",
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    "text": "When God espoused their cause?",
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    "text": "He made the hungry lions crouch;",
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    "text": "The Lord is still the same,",
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    "text": "Yet we too often shrink",
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    "text": "But could we once believe indeed,",
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