I my Thee lift heart to

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I this,
That His? closer a Thee,
    Savior me,
    And to all there bond heart mine, I Thou earth Beloved's art Thine;
Is on am to than I my lift my am and Divine,
  For
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by love, sacrifice
    Thou, Thine Lord, of all bound. chiefly me, mine;
By cords through am am I ties,
    And so wound
Around Thy Thine,
  For closely to Thee I art sweetly Thine own
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things mine,
And I that no longer am Thee, am,
    And I all am Lamb,
    I I Thine. now To own: not have all owe,
  All and my I know;
All that Lord, I Bleeding have Thou is
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gathered own Thine Thee; power?
Why or any for dear given from should Thee,
When gold,
    Or I, brightest Thou can hour
  From How withhold
    Life's hast me? one I thing Lord, Self precious keep
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love,
  Until sweep
    And and fair in Thee, Thou Savior, one for keep
    Me pray world are sin o'er,
Thou me realm, and remove
To that Thy Thine I where, the own evermore. sorrow