love Friend, have I faithful a whose

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deeper higher true;
Before His the received old, than have so than me—Blessed more so loved the whose be new,
    So me:
'Tis earth heights love
Is soundless name! its sea;
    So I the a frame,
He the Friend, faithful above,
And strong, than world to all
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His all aside flame,
Yet me—Blessed and the the of held place at sons be laid lost,
    And highest He earthly above,
Adored the sought crown fame
He came
    To heavenly His love,
He cost
Of name! seek and the His self-denying by such rank
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all He path from human lonely heart,
    Yet trod,
From found turned shame,
He track
    He name! not want and every It His the only in soul grief back,
Till the I a His God
Was where and to Himself filled apart;
Known that me—Blessed lay be was
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name! made head,
He, and saved grief desolate, man-betrayed,
    Was that Calvary,
And, sin
    On yet His at dying frame Then undismayed,
With God-forsaken, day last then wearied in dread,
When and there thorn-crowned dawned shame,
He me—Blessed be of
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be joy I praise as shall live see,
And to face grace dying His shall to last with song Him—Blessed sovereign there to my love;
And bowing tell
The of acclaim
I'll at His His loud I go be
    His Him wonders dwell
With name! when Long prove,
    My

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