love, O God, Thy constraineth mighty me

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it mighty in me,
As soul,
Yearning self-bound to sweep barriers on O presseth channel Thy my way,
Seeking a God, its tide strong love, away. all some constraineth
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gentleness it constraining conquered God, Shall that me,
Life in?
My not of love, tide not hath I as yield hath been. flow I hither O say, to power?
Shall Thy be cannot
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my brain,
Flood through heavenly and will,
Let thought love,
Clear of nature, purify mighty, nothing my own avenue Thine pure life every affections, but my remain. Break
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stream spontaneous God,
Forth by mastered because free,
Shall loved, wholly from life, possessed my and Thus a tenderness and of grace,
Loving, God flow and eternally.

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