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    "text": "A lion, though by nature wild,",
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    "text": "But man himself, who thus subdues",
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    "text": "The fiercest beasts of prey,",
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    "text": "Though by the Lord preserved and fed,",
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    "text": "He proves rebellious still;",
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    "text": "And while he eats his Maker’s bread",
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    "text": "Alike in vain, of grace that saves,",
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    "text": "Or threat’ning law, he hears;",
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    "text": "The savage scorns, blasphemes, and raves,",
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    "text": "But neither loves nor fears.",
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    "text": "O Saviour! how thy wondrous power",
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    "text": "By angels is proclaim’d!",
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    "text": "When in thine own appointed hour",
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    "text": "They see this lion tamed!",
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    "text": "The love thy bleeding cross displays",
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    "text": "The hardest heart subdues!",
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    "text": "Here furious lions, while they gaze,",
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    "text": "Yet we are but renew’d in part,",
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    "text": "The lion still remains;",
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    "text": "Lord, drive him wholly from my heart,",
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    "text": "Or keep him fast in chains.",
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