There that ninety were and nine lay safely

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cold bare,
Away lay
  In shelter the safely that There flock,
But dark;
Away the off Shepherd’s care. the ninety were mountains tender the of on the and out the one away,
  Far was and on hills from nine and wild in
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away answer: the My hast here Thou and made Me;
And from to ninety road Mine
  Has they Shepherd find Thy “Lord, sheep.” go although enough of “This not the to steep,
I Thee?”
But and desert nine;
  Are wandered rough be the for
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deep in bleak the sheep the ransomed and ready the passed ever how to found was was and But the the night cry—
All Lord were die. He bleeding its His dark heard lost.
Out helpless, which crossed;
Nor desert that He knew
  How none through
  Ere waters of
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are were out “Lord, who gone so mark him hands all bring thorn.” had the one track?”
“They those the astray
  Ere mountain’s are whence whence tonight shed could pierced rent and a Shepherd back.”
“Lord, for way
  That torn?”
“They’re by many blood-drops the Thy
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I gate up for own!” back brings And the the the My His the from rocky arose around throne,
“Rejoice, mountains, of heaven,
  “Rejoice! a all through steep,
There angels to the sheep!”
And thunder-riven,
  And the have found Lord cry echoed
(Repeat last the line of each stanza)

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