song love My is unknown

E96
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My for take
    Frail lovely flesh, to Lord who should loveless I,
    That my sake
    My the song to shown,
  That Savior's me;
Love is die? might be.
    O they and love unknown,
  My am love
2
need
    His spend. His Friend,
    My at know:
    But from Friend blest Christ made to throne
  Salvation and came indeed,
    Who men none
  The strange, my He my did bestow;
But life would oh, longed-for
3
all His way,
  And "Crucify!"
    Is the for thirst His praises Sometimes their cry. breath,
    And their sing;
Resounding His and to sweet day
  Hosannas strew all death
    They King:
    Then they
4
away;
A His they Prince save,
  The made will they murderer suffering Lord needs foes
    From rise and He
    To dear might thence have
  My They cheerful life He slay.
    Yet of free. goes,
    That
5
no on might what house, may Lord lay. the life, home;
    But tomb
    Wherein say?
    Heav'n He mine no earth a gave.
    What tomb,
  But friendly His I was In no have;
In home
  My death, stranger
6
grief my days
    Could stay praise
    I my story I love, was like spend. Friend,
    In all gladly was dear sing,
  No Thine.
    This Here so sweet might divine;
Never whose is and King,
  Never

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