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 "title": "Will Ye Also Go Away?",
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    "text": "When any turn from Zion’s way⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Alas! what numbers do!⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Methinks I hear my Saviour say,",
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    "text": "“Wilt thou forsake me too?”",
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    "text": "Ah, Lord! with such a heart as mine,",
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    "text": "Unless thou hold me fast,",
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    "text": "I feel I must, I shall decline,",
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    "text": "And prove like them at last.",
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    "text": "Yet thou alone hast power, I know,",
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    "text": "To save a wretch like me;",
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    "text": "To whom, or whither, could I go,",
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    "text": "If I should turn from thee?",
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    "text": "Beyond a doubt I rest assured",
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    "text": "Thou art the Christ of God,",
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    "text": "Who hast eternal life secured",
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    "text": "By promise and by blood.",
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   {
    "text": "The help of men and angels join’d",
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    "text": "Could never reach my case;",
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    "text": "Nor can I hope relief to find",
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    "text": "But in thy boundless grace.",
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    "text": "No voice but thine can give me rest,",
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    "text": "And bid my fears depart;",
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   {
    "text": "No love but thine can make me bless’d.",
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    "text": "And satisfy my heart.",
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    "text": "What anguish has that question stirr’d,",
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   {
    "text": "If I will also go?",
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   {
    "text": "Yet, Lord, relying on thy word,",
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   {
    "text": "I humbly answer⁠—No.",
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