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Contains JSON data on the Trinity Hymnal
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{
"title": "O love of God, how strong and true",
"author": "",
"tune": "Brookfield",
"number": "73",
"lyrics": "O love of God, how strong and true!\nEternal, and yet ever new;\nUncomprehended and unbought,\nBeyond all knowledge and all thought.\n\nO love of God, how deep and great!\nFar deeper than man's deepest hate;\nSelf-fed, self-kindled like the light,\nChangeless, eternal, infinite.\n\nO heavenly love, how precious still,\nIn days of weariness and ill,\nIn nights of pain and helplessness,\nTo heal, to comfort, and to bless!\n\nO wide embracing, wondrous love!\nWe read thee in the sky above,\nWe read thee in the earth below,\nIn seas that swell, and streams that flow.\n\nWe read thee best in him who came\nTo bear for us the cross of shame;\nSent by the Father from on high,\nOur life to live, our death to die.\n\nWe read thy power to bless and save,\nEven in the darkness of the grave;\nStill more in resurrection light\nWe read the fulness of thy might.\n\nO love of God, our shield and stay\nThrough all the perils of our way!\nEternal love, in thee we rest,\nFor ever safe, for ever blest.",
"first_line": "O love of God, how strong and true!"
}