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    "text": "Courage, my soul! behold the prize",
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    "text": "The Saviour’s love provides",
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    "text": "The wicked cease from troubling there,",
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    "text": "The weary are at rest;",
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    "text": "A wicked world and wicked heart",
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    "text": "With Satan now are join’d;",
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    "text": "Each acts a too successful part",
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    "text": "In conflict with this threefold troop,",
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    "text": "How weary, Lord, am I!",
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    "text": "Did not thy promise bear me up",
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    "text": "My soul must faint and die:",
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    "text": "But fighting in my Saviour’s strength,",
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    "text": "Though mighty are my foes,",
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    "text": "I shall a conq’ror be at length",
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    "text": "Then why, my soul, complain or fear?",
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    "text": "The crown of glory see!",
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    "text": "The more I toil and suffer here,",
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