have I Friend, love whose a faithful

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

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