faithful have I whose love Friend, a

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

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