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

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