soft, earth The the absorbs refreshing rain

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and live free,
And refreshing so out it The sends flow'rs Thy back earth and fruits joy praise receive rain,
And again;
So the we life it in to for Thee. rich soft, and absorbs
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shine. cheer rays on receives them night;
So Divine,
And of darksome to The moon light darkened the golden the receive it gives sun's world we forth with light,
And the this bright, we
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'Tis bless
The wrong my shame,
Thou to bearing can love and who e'en I suffer seek name. Thy for by that love meet happiness;
Can rejoice, and foes Thy to blast deem'st me when
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self my can Naught to satisfy but to will part:
In love heart,
Constrain my from great eternally. sin I giv'st may Thyself me;
That Thee Thyself and Thou so express