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    "text": "God of my life, to thee I call,",
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    "text": "Afflicted at thy feet I fall;",
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    "text": "When the great water-floods prevail,",
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    "text": "Where should I lodge my deep complaint?",
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    "text": "Where but with thee, whose open door",
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    "text": "Did ever mourner plead with thee,",
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    "text": "Does not the word still fix’d remain",
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    "text": "That were a grief I could not bear,",
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    "text": "Didst thou not hear and answer pray’r;",
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    "text": "But a pray’r-hearing, answ’ring God,",
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    "text": "Fair is the lot that’s cast for me,",
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    "text": "I have an Advocate with thee:",
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    "text": "They whom the world caresses most",
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    "text": "Poor though I am, despised, forgot,",
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    "text": "Yet God, my God, forgets me not;",
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    "text": "And he is safe and must succeed,",
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