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    "text": "Happy the birth where grace presides,",
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    "text": "To form the future life!",
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    "text": "In wisdom’s path the soul she guides,",
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    "text": "Since I have known the Saviour’s name,",
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    "text": "And what for me he bore;",
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    "text": "No more I toil for empty fame,",
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    "text": "I thirst for gold no more.",
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    "text": "Placed by his hand in this retreat,",
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    "text": "I make his love my theme,",
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    "text": "Since he has rank’d my worthless name",
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    "text": "Amongst his favour’d few,",
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    "text": "Let the mad world, who scoff at them,",
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    "text": "Revile and hate me too.",
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    "text": "O thou whose voice the dead can raise,",
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    "text": "And teach the dumb to sing thy praise,",
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    "text": "This work is all thine own!",
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    "text": "Thy wond’ring saints rejoice to see",
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    "text": "A wretch like me restored,",
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    "text": "And point and say⁠—“How changed is he",
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    "text": "Who once defied the Lord!”",
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    "text": "Grace bid me live, and taught my tongue",
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    "text": "To aim at notes divine;",
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    "text": "And grace accepts my feeble song⁠—",
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    "text": "The glory, Lord, be thine!",
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