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    "text": "Beneath the tyrant Satan’s yoke",
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    "text": "Now, freed from bondage, sin, and death,",
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    "text": "O might we, ere we hence remove,",
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    "text": "Like Simeon, we shall gladly go,",
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    "text": "On these thy Spirit pour,",
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