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 "title": "Zaccheus",
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 "poet": "John Newton",
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    "text": "Zaccheus climb’d the tree,",
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    "text": "And thought himself unknown;",
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    "text": "But how surprised was he",
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    "text": "When Jesus call’d him down!",
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    "text": "The Lord beheld him, though conceal’d,",
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    "text": "And by a word his power reveal’d.",
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    "text": "Wonder and joy at once",
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    "text": "Were painted in his face;",
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   {
    "text": "“Does he my name pronounce,",
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   {
    "text": "And does he know my case?",
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    "text": "Will Jesus deign with me to dine?",
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   {
    "text": "Lord, I, with all I have, are thine.”",
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    "text": "Thus, where the gospel’s preach’d,",
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    "text": "And sinners come to hear,",
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    "text": "The hearts of some are reach’d",
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    "text": "Before they are aware:",
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    "text": "The word directly speaks to them,",
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    "text": "’Tis curiosity",
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    "text": "Oft brings them in the way,",
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    "text": "Only the man to see",
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    "text": "And hear what he can say;",
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    "text": "But how the sinner starts to find",
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    "text": "The preacher knows his inmost mind!",
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    "text": "His long-forgotten faults",
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    "text": "Are brought again in view,",
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    "text": "And all his secrets thoughts",
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    "text": "Reveal’d in public too.",
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    "text": "Though compass’d with a crowd about,",
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    "text": "The searching word has found him out.",
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    "text": "While thus distressing pain",
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    "text": "And sorrow fill his heart,",
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    "text": "He hears a voice again,",
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    "text": "That bids his fears depart,",
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    "text": "Then like Zaccheus he is blest,",
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    "text": "And Jesus deigns to be his guest.",
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