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    "text": "“My barns are full, my stores increase,",
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   {
    "text": "And now, for many years,",
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    "text": "Soul, eat and drink, and take thine ease,",
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    "text": "Secure from wants and fears.”",
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    "text": "Thus while a worldling boasted once,",
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    "text": "As many now presume,",
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    "text": "He heard the Lord himself pronounce",
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    "text": "His sudden awful doom.",
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    "text": "“This night, vain fool, thy soul must pass",
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    "text": "Into a world unknown;",
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    "text": "And who shall then the stores possess",
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    "text": "Which thou hast call’d thine own?”",
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    "text": "Thus blinded mortals fondly scheme",
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    "text": "For happiness below,",
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    "text": "Till death disturbs the pleasing dream,",
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    "text": "Ah! who can speak the vast dismay",
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   {
    "text": "That fills the sinner’s mind,",
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    "text": "When, torn by Death’s strong hand away,",
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    "text": "He leaves his all behind.",
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    "text": "Wretches, who cleave to earthly things,",
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    "text": "But are not rich to God,",
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    "text": "Their dying hour is full of stings,",
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    "text": "Dear Saviour, make us timely wise",
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    "text": "Thy gospel to attend,",
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    "text": "That we may live above the skies",
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    "text": "When this poor life shall end.",
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