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{
"title": "Jesus, I my cross have taken",
"author": "",
"tune": "Crucifer",
"number": "593",
"lyrics": "Jesus, I my cross have taken,\nAll to leave, and follow thee;\nDestitute, despised, forsaken,\nThou from hence my all shalt be:\nPerish ev'ry fond ambition,\nAll I've sought, or hoped, or known;\nYet how rich is my condition,\nGod and heav'n are still my own.\n\nMan may trouble and distress me,\n'Twill but drive me to thy breast;\nLife with trials hard may press me,\nHeav'n will bring me sweeter rest:\nO 'tis not in grief to harm me\nWhile thy love is left to me;\nO 'twere not in joy to charm me,\nWere that joy unmixed with thee.\n\nTake, my soul, thy full salvation,\nRise o'er sin and fear and care;\nJoy to find in ev'ry station\nSomething still to do or bear;\nThink what spirit dwells within thee,\nWhat a Father's smile is thine,\nWhat a Saviour died to win thee:\nChild of heav'n, shouldst thou repine?\n\nHaste then on from grace to glory,\nArmed by faith, and winged by prayer;\nHeav'n's eternal day's before thee,\nGod's own hand shall guide thee there.\nSoon shall close thy earthly mission;\nSwift shall pass thy pilgrim days;\nHope soon change to glad fruition,\nFaith to sight, and prayer to praise.",
"first_line": "Jesus, I my cross have taken,"
}