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   {
    "text": "Fix my heart and eyes on thine!",
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    "text": "What are other objects worth?",
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   {
    "text": "But to see thy glory shine",
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    "text": "Is a heaven begun on earth:",
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    "text": "Trifles can no longer move⁠—",
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    "text": "Oh, I tread on all beside",
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    "text": "When I feel my Saviour’s love,",
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    "text": "And remember how he died!",
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    "text": "Now my search is at an end,",
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   {
    "text": "Now my wishes rove no more!",
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    "text": "Thus my moments I would spend,",
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    "text": "Love and wonder and adore:",
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   {
    "text": "Jesus, source of excellence!",
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    "text": "All thy glorious love reveal;",
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    "text": "Kingdoms shall not bribe me hence",
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    "text": "While this happiness I feel.",
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    "text": "Take my heart, ’tis all thine own,",
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    "text": "To thy will my spirit frame;",
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    "text": "Thou shalt reign, and thou alone,",
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   {
    "text": "Over all I have or am:",
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    "text": "If a foolish thought shall dare",
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    "text": "To rebel against thy word,",
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    "text": "Slay it, Lord, and do not spare,",
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    "text": "Let it feel thy Spirit’s sword.",
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    "text": "Making thus the Lord my choice,",
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    "text": "I have nothing more to choose",
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    "text": "But to listen to thy voice,",
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    "text": "And my will in thine to lose:",
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    "text": "Thus, whatever may betide,",
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    "text": "I shall safe and happy be;",
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    "text": "Still content and satisfied,",
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    "text": "Having all in having thee.",
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