have I whose a Friend, love faithful

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

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