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    "text": "What thousands never knew the road!",
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    "text": "What thousands hate it when ’tis known!",
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    "text": "None but the chosen tribes of God",
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    "text": "Will seek or choose it for their own.",
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    "text": "A thousand ways in ruin end,",
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    "text": "One only leads to joys on high;",
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    "text": "By that my willing steps ascend,",
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    "text": "Pleased with a journey to the sky.",
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    "text": "No more I ask or hope to find",
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    "text": "Delight or happiness below;",
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    "text": "Sorrow may well possess the mind",
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    "text": "That feeds where thorns and thistles grow.",
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    "text": "The joy that fades is not for me,",
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    "text": "I seek immortal joys above;",
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    "text": "There glory without end shall be",
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    "text": "Cleave to the world, ye sordid worms,",
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    "text": "Contented lick your native dust;",
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    "text": "But God shall fight with all his storms,",
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    "text": "Against the idol of your trust.",
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