Friend, I faithful whose love a have

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

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