a Friend, whose have faithful love I

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

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