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    "text": "Mary to her Saviour’s tomb",
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    "text": "Hasted at the early dawn;",
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    "text": "Spice she brought, and sweet perfume;",
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    "text": "But the Lord she loved was gone.",
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    "text": "For awhile she weeping stood,",
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    "text": "Struck with sorrow and surprise,",
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    "text": "For her heart supplied her eyes.",
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    "text": "Jesus, who is always near,",
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    "text": "Though too often unperceived,",
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    "text": "Came, his drooping child to cheer,",
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    "text": "Kindly asking, “Why she grieved?”",
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    "text": "Though at first she knew him not,",
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    "text": "When he call’d her by her name",
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    "text": "Then her griefs were all forgot,",
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    "text": "For she found he was the same.",
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    "text": "Grief and sighing quickly fled",
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    "text": "When she heard his welcome voice:",
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    "text": "Just before she thought him dead,",
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    "text": "Now he bids her heart rejoice.",
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    "text": "What a change his word can make,",
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    "text": "Turning darkness into day!",
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    "text": "You who weep for Jesu’s sake,",
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    "text": "He who came to comfort her,",
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    "text": "When she thought her all was lost,",
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    "text": "Will for your relief appear,",
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    "text": "Though you now are tempest-toss’d:",
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    "text": "On his word your burden cast,",
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    "text": "On his love your thoughts employ;",
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    "text": "Weeping for awhile may last,",
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    "text": "But the morning brings the joy.",
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