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Must prize,
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Let the our giv’n our birthright our
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And double A the ours
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And supreme was count
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Judah tending Joseph’s to Benjamin’s comforter adversity,
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we we’d The priesthood kingship birthright, and seek,
The double our Lord, would too;
Make Thee, so for Thee
That portion pursue. us the desperate,
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thus
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Lord, right Thee, promise, us,
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And to realize. giv’n