a have faithful love I whose Friend,

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

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