have love Friend, a faithful whose I

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

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