have Friend, a I faithful whose love

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

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