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    "text": "The Saviour hides his face!",
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    "text": "My spirit thirsts to prove",
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    "text": "Renew’d supplies of pard’ning grace,",
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    "text": "The favour’d souls who know",
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    "text": "What glories shine in him",
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    "text": "Pant for his presence, as the roe",
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    "text": "What trifles tease me now!",
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    "text": "They swarm like summer flies,",
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    "text": "They cleave to every thing I do,",
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    "text": "How dull the Sabbath-day,",
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    "text": "Without the Sabbath’s Lord!",
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    "text": "How toilsome then to sing and pray",
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    "text": "And wait upon the word?",
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    "text": "Of all the truths I hear,",
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    "text": "How few delight my taste!",
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    "text": "I glean a berry here and there,",
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    "text": "But mourn the vintage past.",
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    "text": "Yet let me (as I ought)",
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    "text": "Still hope to be supplied;",
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    "text": "No pleasure else is worth a thought,",
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    "text": "Nor shall I be denied.",
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    "text": "Though I am but a worm,",
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    "text": "Unworthy of his care,",
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    "text": "The Lord will my desire perform,",
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    "text": "And grant me all my pray’r.",
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