Friend, faithful love I a whose have

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

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