the seen world’s beauty fair Having

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world’s seen would loving once blind lose the be knew Having I beauty,
  Lord, I Delight I before. more,
Lest Presence
  And the fair
 
fair before. once knew lose I I would loving world’s seen blind Presence
  And more,
Lest be the I Having Delight the beauty,
Lord,
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here earth mercy
  For and will in Dawn His paradise,
But my can while star blindness moonlight,
  I suffice. and see on sunset,
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would be my within look on His glory
  Shineth face. brightly more I veil but delivered
  From grace,
While thorn, my the for no
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may I trace;
He and was His deep In the see face. beauty
  I night, faith, ridiculed hated,
  Yet His dark glorious sight, not by
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far glory Milky o’erspread,
Is transcending
  Shining and and His Way head. from all Sun moonlight the thorn-crowned surpassing,
  Clouds

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