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    "text": "Fierce passions discompose the mind,",
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    "text": "But calm content and peace we find",
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    "text": "When, Lord, we turn to thee.",
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    "text": "In vain by reason and by rule",
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    "text": "We try to bend the will;",
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    "text": "For none but in the Saviour’s school",
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    "text": "Since at his feet my soul has sat,",
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    "text": "His gracious words to hear;",
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    "text": "Contented with my present state,",
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    "text": "“Art thou a sinner, soul?” he said,",
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    "text": "“Then how canst thou complain?",
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    "text": "How light thy troubles here, if weigh’d",
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    "text": "If thou of murm’ring wouldst be cured,",
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    "text": "Compare thy griefs with mine;",
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    "text": "Think what my love for thee endured,",
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    "text": "And thou wilt not repine.",
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    "text": "’Tis I appoint thy daily lot,",
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    "text": "And I do all things well:",
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    "text": "Thou soon shalt leave this wretched spot,",
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    "text": "And rise with me to dwell.",
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    "text": "In life, my grace shall strength supply",
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    "text": "Proportion’d to thy day;",
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    "text": "At death, thou still shalt find me nigh,",
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    "text": "To wipe thy tears away.”",
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    "text": "Thus I, who once my wretched days",
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    "text": "In vain repinings spent,",
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    "text": "Taught in my Saviour’s school of grace,",
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    "text": "Have learn’d to be content.",
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