Having beauty fair the world’s seen

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

after had This her author, gained was its been born who hymn written blind, shortly sight.