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    "text": "Lord, my soul with pleasure springs",
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    "text": "When Jesus name I hear,",
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    "text": "And when God the Spirit brings",
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    "text": "The word of promise near:",
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    "text": "Beauties too, in holiness,",
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    "text": "Still delighted I perceive;",
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    "text": "Nor have words that can express",
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    "text": "The joys thy precepts give.",
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    "text": "Clothed in sanctity and grace,",
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    "text": "How sweet it is to see",
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    "text": "Those who love thee, as they pass,",
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    "text": "Or when they wait on thee!",
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    "text": "Pleasant too, to sit and tell",
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    "text": "What we owe to love divine;",
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    "text": "Till our bosoms grateful swell",
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    "text": "And eyes begin to shine.",
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    "text": "Those the comforts I possess,",
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    "text": "Which God shall still increase:",
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    "text": "All his ways are pleasantness,",
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    "text": "And all his paths are peace.",
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    "text": "Nothing Jesus did or spoke,",
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    "text": "Henceforth let me ever slight;",
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   {
    "text": "For I love his easy yoke,",
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