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    "text": "Jesus, to what didst thou submit,",
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    "text": "To save thy dear-bought flock from hell!",
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    "text": "Like a poor trav’ler see him sit",
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    "text": "Athirst and weary by the well.",
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    "text": "The woman who for water came",
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    "text": "(What great events on small depend!)",
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    "text": "Then learn’d the glory of his name,",
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    "text": "The well of life, the sinner’s Friend!",
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    "text": "Taught from her birth to hate the Jews,",
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    "text": "And fill’d with party pride, at first",
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    "text": "Her zeal induced her to refuse",
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    "text": "Water, to quench the Saviour’s thirst.",
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    "text": "But soon she knew the gift of God,",
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    "text": "And Jesus, whom she scorn’d before,",
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    "text": "Unask’d, that drink on her bestow’d",
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    "text": "Which whoso tastes shall thirst no more.",
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    "text": "His words her prejudice removed,",
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    "text": "Her sin she felt, relief she found;",
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    "text": "She saw and heard, believed and loved,",
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    "text": "And ran to tell her neighbours round.",
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    "text": "O come, this wondrous man behold,",
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    "text": "The promised Saviour! this is he",
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    "text": "Whom ancient prophecies foretold,",
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    "text": "Born from our guilt to set us free,",
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    "text": "Like her, in ignorance content,",
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    "text": "I worshipp’d long I knew not what;",
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    "text": "Like her, on other things intent,",
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    "text": "I found him when I sought him not.",
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    "text": "He told me all that e’er I did,",
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    "text": "And told me all was pardon’d too;",
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   {
    "text": "And now, like her, as he has bid,",
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   {
    "text": "I live to point him out to you.",
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