a faithful I have Friend, whose love

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

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