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    "text": "Grace, triumphant in the throne,",
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    "text": "Scorns a rival, reigns alone;",
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    "text": "Come and bow beneath her sway,",
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    "text": "Cast your idol-works away.",
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    "text": "Works of man, when made his plea,",
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    "text": "Never shall accepted be;",
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   {
    "text": "Fruits of pride (vain-glorious worm)",
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    "text": "Are the best he can perform.",
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    "text": "Self, the god his soul adores,",
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    "text": "Influences all his pow’rs;",
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    "text": "Jesus is a slighted name,",
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    "text": "Self-advancement all his aim:",
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    "text": "But when God the Judge shall come,",
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    "text": "To pronounce the final doom,",
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    "text": "Then for rocks and hills to hide",
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    "text": "All his works and all his pride!",
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    "text": "Still the boasting heart replies,",
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    "text": "What, the worthy and the wise,",
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    "text": "Friends to temperance and peace,",
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   {
    "text": "Have not these a righteousness?",
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    "text": "Banish every vain pretence",
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    "text": "Built on human excellence;",
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    "text": "Perish every thing in man,",
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    "text": "But the grace that never can.",
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