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Contains JSON data on the Trinity Hymnal
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{
"title": "Glorious things of thee are spoken",
"author": "",
"tune": "Austrian Hymn",
"number": "269",
"lyrics": "Glorious things of thee are spoken,\nZion, city of our God;\nHe whose word cannot be broken\nFormed thee for his own abode:\nOn the Rock of Ages founded,\nWhat can shake thy sure repose?\nWith salvation's walls surrounded,\nThou may'st smile at all thy foes.\n\nSee the streams of living waters,\nSpringing from eternal love,\nWell supply thy sons and daughters,\nAnd all fear of want remove;\nWho can faint, while such a river\nEver flows their thirst t'assuage?\nGrace which, like the Lord, the giver,\nNever fails from age to age.\n\nRound each habitation hov'ring,\nSee the cloud and fire appear\nFor a glory and a cov'ring,\nShowing that the Lord is near:\nThus deriving from their banner\nLight by night and shade by day,\nSafe they feed upon the manna\nWhich he gives them when they pray.\n\nSaviour, if of Zion's city\nI, through grace, a member am,\nLet the world deride or pity,\nI will glory in thy Name:\nFading is the worldling's pleasure,\nAll his boasted pomp and show;\nSolid joys and lasting treasure\nNone but Zion's children know.",
"first_line": "Glorious things of thee are spoken,"
}