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    "text": "Glorious things of thee are spoken,",
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   {
    "text": "Zion, city of our God!",
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    "text": "He, whose word cannot be broken,",
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    "text": "Form’d thee for his own abode:",
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    "text": "On the Rock of ages founded,",
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    "text": "What can shake thy sure repose?",
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    "text": "With salvation’s walls surrounded,",
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    "text": "Thou may’st smile at all thy foes.",
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    "text": "See! the streams of living waters",
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   {
    "text": "Springing from eternal love,",
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    "text": "Well supply thy sons and daughters,",
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    "text": "And all fear of want remove:",
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   {
    "text": "Who can faint while such a river",
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   {
    "text": "Ever flows their thirst t’ assuage?",
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   {
    "text": "Grace, which, like the Lord, the giver,",
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    "text": "Never fails from age to age.",
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    "text": "Round each habitation hov’ring,",
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   {
    "text": "See the cloud and fire appear!",
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   {
    "text": "For a glory and a cov’ring,",
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   {
    "text": "Showing that the Lord is near:",
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   {
    "text": "Thus deriving from their banner",
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    "text": "Light by night, and shade by day;",
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    "text": "Safe they feed upon the manna",
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   {
    "text": "Which he gives them when they pray.",
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   {
    "text": "Bless’d inhabitants of Zion,",
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   {
    "text": "Wash’d in the Redeemer’s blood!",
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   {
    "text": "Jesus, whom their souls rely on,",
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    "text": "Makes them kings and priests to God;",
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    "text": "’Tis his love his people raises",
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    "text": "Over self to reign as kings,",
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    "text": "And as priests his solemn praises",
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   {
    "text": "Each for a thank-off’ring brings.",
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    "text": "Saviour, if of Zion’s city",
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   {
    "text": "I through grace a member am,",
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   {
    "text": "Let the world deride or pity⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "I will glory in thy name:",
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   {
    "text": "Fading is the worldling’s pleasure⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "All his boasted pomp and show;",
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   {
    "text": "Solid joys and lasting treasure",
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   {
    "text": "None but Zion’s children know.",
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