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 "title": "Winter.",
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 "container": "After Sermons to Young People on New-Year’s Evenings, Suited to the Subjects",
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  "year": 1779,
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    "text": "See, how rude Winter’s icy hand",
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    "text": "Has stripp’d the trees and seal’d the ground!",
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   {
    "text": "But Spring shall soon his rage withstand,",
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    "text": "And spread new beauties all around.",
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    "text": "My soul a sharper winter mourns,",
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    "text": "Barren and fruitless I remain;",
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   {
    "text": "When will the gentle spring return,",
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   {
    "text": "And bid my graces grow again?",
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   {
    "text": "Jesus, my glorious sun, arise!",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis thine the frozen heart to move;",
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   {
    "text": "Oh! hush these storms and clear my skies.",
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   {
    "text": "And let me feel thy vital love!",
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    "text": "Dear Lord, regard my feeble cry,",
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    "text": "I faint and droop till thou appear;",
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    "text": "Wilt thou permit thy plant to die?",
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    "text": "Must it be winter all the year.",
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    "text": "Be still, my soul, and wait his hour",
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    "text": "With humble pray’r and patient faith;",
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    "text": "Till he reveals his gracious power,",
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    "text": "He, by whose all-commanding word",
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    "text": "Seasons their changing course maintain,",
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   {
    "text": "In every change a pledge affords,",
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    "text": "That none shall seek his face in vain.",
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