have I whose love faithful a Friend,

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

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