Master, heareth Thy servant speak!

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