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Contains JSON data on the Trinity Hymnal
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{
"title": "I've found a Friend, O such a Friend",
"author": "",
"tune": "Constance",
"number": "433",
"lyrics": "I've found a Friend, O such a Friend!\nHe loved me ere I knew him;\nHe drew me with the cords of love,\nAnd thus he bound me to him;\nAnd round my heart still closely twine\nThose ties which nought can sever,\nFor I am his, and he is mine,\nFor ever and for ever.\n\nI've found a Friend, O such a Friend!\nHe bled, he died to save me;\nAnd not alone the gift of life,\nBut his own self he gave me!\nNought that I have mine own I'll call,\nI'll hold it for the Giver,\nMy heart, my strength, my life, my all\nAre his, and his for ever.\n\nI've found a Friend, O such a Friend!\nAll pow'r to him is given,\nTo guard me on my onward course,\nAnd bring me safe to heaven:\nEternal glory gleams afar,\nTo nerve my faint endeavor:\nSo now to watch, to work, to war;\nAnd then to rest for ever.\n\nI've found a Friend, O such a Friend!\nSo kind and true and tender,\nSo wise a Counselor and Guide,\nSo mighty a Defender!\nFrom him who loves me now so well\nWhat pow'r my soul can sever?\nShall life or death, shall earth or hell?\nNo! I am his for ever.",
"first_line": "I've found a Friend, O such a Friend!"
}