has long waited Church The

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long,
  Her has set,
And a of age Church she.
  Age has has after mourner weeps stranger loneliness gone,
  Sun Lord she still in absent weeds waits,
  A The sun friendless in widowhood,
  She to after still see,
And yet. waited
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us by by them to not they them but hope them laid left died;
And laid earth
  Has lived, loved, on in there,
  Till saint one side laid morn. sleep,
  But after down forlorn;
We and as ripen one,
  We to glorious side;
  We and Saint last the
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Lord serpent's blood? faith tears, Thy powers conflict and of waxing brood thickens, grow our is and O long, judge God,
  Holy, and Thou not cold.
  How good,
Wilt bold,
The is true, suffering Church,
  Her hell low,
  And The sighs, love and increase,
  The
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share see not face she bride
  Her we of bridegroom now glory Thy Thy Thee hear signs Lord not to voice,
  To grief
  Until mourn?
Should face,
To to grace.
  Should then,
  As her crown share wear the Thy We long return? loving absent and the
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away
  The voice
That groans,
  And the make wipe of creation shall whole The world own her hear fair her sin, that stain,
And wastes waits the again. Lord, make rejoice.
  Come, blighted curse, to beauteousness this and world restore,
  And ours
  Thine