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    "text": "Could the creatures help or ease us",
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    "text": "Seldom should we think of prayer;",
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    "text": "Few, if any, come to Jesus",
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    "text": "Till reduced to self-despair:",
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    "text": "Long we either slight or doubt him;",
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    "text": "But when all the means we try",
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    "text": "Prove we cannot do without him,",
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    "text": "Thus the ruler, when his daughter",
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    "text": "Suffer’d much, though Christ was nigh,",
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    "text": "Still deferr’d it till he thought her",
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    "text": "At the very point to die:",
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    "text": "Though he mourn’d for her condition,",
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    "text": "He did not entreat the Lord",
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    "text": "Jesus did not once upbraid him,",
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    "text": "That he had no sooner come;",
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    "text": "But a gracious answer made him,",
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    "text": "And went straightway with him home:",
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    "text": "Yet his faith was put to trial",
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    "text": "When his servants came, and said,",
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    "text": "Though he gave thee no denial,",
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    "text": "’Tis too late⁠—the child is dead.”",
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    "text": "Jesus, to prevent his grieving,",
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    "text": "Kindly spoke, and eased his pain;",
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    "text": "“Be not fearful, but believing⁠—",
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    "text": "Thou shalt see her live again.”",
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    "text": "When he found the people weeping,",
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    "text": "“Cease,” he said, “no longer mourn;",
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    "text": "For she is not dead, but sleeping:”",
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    "text": "Then they laughed him to scorn.",
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    "text": "O thou meek and lowly Saviour,",
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    "text": "How determined is thy love!",
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    "text": "Not this rude unkind behaviour",
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    "text": "Could thy gracious purpose move.",
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    "text": "Soon as he the room had enter’d,",
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    "text": "Spoke, and took her by the hand,",
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    "text": "Death at once his prey surrender’d,",
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    "text": "And she lived at his command.",
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    "text": "Fear not then, distress’d believer,",
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    "text": "Venture on his mighty name;",
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    "text": "He is able to deliver,",
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    "text": "And his love is still the same:",
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    "text": "Can his pity or his power",
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    "text": "Suffer thee to pray in vain?",
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    "text": "Wait but his appointed hour,",
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    "text": "And thy suit thou shalt obtain.",
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