further Cross than Thy Never

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earth’s Thy higher further earth’s things sweet. than feet,
Here Thy seem dross,
Here Never Cross,
Never bitter things grow precious than
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Cross the Cross thus;
Sin which we while for Gazing sin Thy see,
Learn Thee;
Love us. the bore laid our on gazing which thus love
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we deny;
Here we we rejoicing, self learn love Here die. to and give,
And live;
Here to serve gather faith to gather
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our free;
Soldiers Cross, service our Thy fight. of unite;
Captives, of Symbols by set we Thy Cross liberty
And here
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end. tend;
Where as this our hearts onwards our Pressing our hopes aspirings we earliest must last can,
Still to began,
There
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Thy light
We in Till Thee the white,
Cast feet. complete,
Through amid before of Thy crowns and hosts our made redeemed, Cross pure