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 "title": "Walking with God",
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    "text": "Oh for a closer walk with God,",
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    "text": "A calm and heavenly frame,",
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    "text": "A light to shine upon the road",
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    "text": "That leads me to the Lamb!",
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    "text": "Where is the blessedness I knew",
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   {
    "text": "When first I saw the Lord?",
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    "text": "Where is the soul-refreshing view",
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    "text": "Of Jesus and his word?",
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    "text": "What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d!",
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   {
    "text": "How sweet their mem’ry still!",
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    "text": "But they have left an aching void",
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    "text": "The world can never fill.",
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    "text": "Return, O holy Dove! return,",
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    "text": "Sweet messenger of rest;",
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    "text": "I hate the sins that made thee mourn,",
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    "text": "The dearest idol I have known,",
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    "text": "Whate’er that idol be,",
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    "text": "Help me to tear it from thy throne,",
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    "text": "So shall my walk be close with God,",
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    "text": "Calm and serene my frame;",
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    "text": "So purer light shall mark the road",
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    "text": "That leads me to the Lamb.",
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