a Friend, I have whose love faithful

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

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