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    "text": "A worlding spent each day",
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    "text": "In luxury and state,",
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    "text": "While a believer lay",
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    "text": "A beggar at his gate.",
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    "text": "Think not the Lord’s appointment strange,",
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    "text": "Death made a great and lasting change.",
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    "text": "Death brought the saint release",
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    "text": "And to the land of peace",
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    "text": "His soul, by angels borne,",
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    "text": "In Abraham’s bosom safely placed,",
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    "text": "Enjoys an everlasting feast.",
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    "text": "The rich man also died,",
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    "text": "And in a moment fell",
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    "text": "From all his pomp and pride",
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    "text": "Into the flames of hell:",
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    "text": "The beggar’s bliss, from far beheld,",
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    "text": "His soul with double anguish fill’d.",
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    "text": "“O, Abra’m, send,” he cries,",
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    "text": "(But his request was vain,)",
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    "text": "“The beggar from the skies",
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    "text": "To mitigate my pain!",
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   {
    "text": "One drop of water I entreat,",
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    "text": "To sooth my tongue’s tormenting heat.”",
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    "text": "Let all who worldly pelf",
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    "text": "And worldly spirits have",
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    "text": "Observe, each for himself,",
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   {
    "text": "The answer Abra’m gave:",
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   {
    "text": "“Remember thou wast fill’d with good,",
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    "text": "While the poor beggar pined for good.",
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    "text": "“Neglected at thy door,",
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    "text": "With tears he begg’d his bread;",
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    "text": "But now he weeps no more⁠—",
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    "text": "His griefs and pains are fled:",
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    "text": "His joys eternally will flow,",
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    "text": "While thine expire in endless woe.”",
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    "text": "Lord, make us truly wise,",
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    "text": "To choose thy people’s lot,",
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    "text": "And earthly joys despise,",
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    "text": "Which soon will be forgot:",
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    "text": "The greatest evil we can fear,",
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   {
    "text": "Is to possess our portion here!",
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