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    "text": "’Tis past⁠—the dreadful stormy night",
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    "text": "And now I see returning light⁠—",
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    "text": "The Lord, my Sun, appears.",
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    "text": "The tempter, who but lately said",
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    "text": "I soon should be his prey,",
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    "text": "Has heard my Saviour’s voice, and fled",
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    "text": "Ah! Lord, since thou didst hide thy face.",
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    "text": "What has my soul endured?",
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    "text": "But now ’tis past, I feel thy grace,",
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    "text": "And all my wounds are cured!",
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    "text": "O wondrous change! but just before",
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    "text": "Despair beset me round;",
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    "text": "I heard the lion’s horrid roar,",
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    "text": "Before corruption, guilt, and fear,",
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    "text": "My comforts blasted fell;",
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    "text": "And unbelief discover’d near",
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    "text": "The dreadful depths of hell:",
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    "text": "But Jesus pitied my distress,",
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    "text": "He heard my feeble cry,",
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    "text": "Reveal’d his blood and righteousness,",
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    "text": "Beneath the banner of his love",
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    "text": "I now secure remain;",
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    "text": "The tempter frets, but dares not move",
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    "text": "To break my peace again.",
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    "text": "Lord, since thou thus hast broke my bands,",
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    "text": "And set the captive free,",
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   {
    "text": "I would devote my tongue, my hands,",
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   {
    "text": "My heart, my all to thee.",
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