I faithful Friend, love have whose a

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