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    "text": "When darkness long has veil’d my mind.",
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    "text": "And smiling day once more appears,",
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   {
    "text": "Then, my Redeemer, then I find",
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    "text": "The folly of my doubts and fears.",
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    "text": "Straight I upbraid my wand’ring heart,",
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    "text": "And blush that I should ever be",
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    "text": "Thus prone to act so base a part,",
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    "text": "Or harbour one hard thought of thee.",
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    "text": "Oh! let me then at length be taught",
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    "text": "What I am still so slow to learn:",
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    "text": "That God is love and changes not,",
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    "text": "Nor knows the shadow of a turn.",
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    "text": "Sweet truth, and easy to repeat!",
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    "text": "But when my faith is sharply tried,",
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    "text": "I find myself a learner yet,",
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    "text": "Unskilful, weak, and apt to slide.",
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    "text": "But, my Lord, one look from thee",
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    "text": "Subdues the disobedient will;",
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    "text": "Drives doubt and discontent away,",
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    "text": "And thy rebellious worm is still.",
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    "text": "Thou art as ready to forgive,",
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    "text": "As I am ready to repine;",
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    "text": "Thou, therefore, all the praise receive;",
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    "text": "Be shame and self-abhorrence mine.",
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