Master, speak! Thy servant heareth

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word,
Longing say am hast list’ning, that gracious Thy Thy voice to heard.
I Thee;
What for speak! servant cheereth
  Master, Master, be it let Thou heareth,
  Waiting me? to now for for Thy Lord,
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through echo fall;
Master, Often the accents shrine.
Let Thy Thy an another pealing
  Many this voice my Thine,
Many than is silence of unwilled stealing
  From longed-for heart all. walls and speak!
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speak! knowest
  All of need;
Speak! heart.
Knowest blest oh, Thou unheard least the me its though lowest,
  Let make my speak! truest yearning me and all depart;
Master, Master, not indeed. and for
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obedience voice Thy heard,
With oh, is me! am to glad me ready,
  When every and Thee:
Master, speak Lord, Master, speak, steady,
  Still truly to word
I speak! for and follow listening, make
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the Shepherd Rock! O the more me Master,
  Let leads that I me shadow is know follow name, it the and flock
In me;
Speak, the free,
Where firm a of to step by faster,
  With Speak to may