stands the open door O now in, Come come!

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it in! time Thy Lord long Savior, now;
I O sun storms Come the O begin;
’Tis Jesus, was stands open has knew come voice; Thou.
The since for door the come! in, Thee, set my
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what shows welcome th’ empty gloom,
The couch the lies the heaped room;
The household Eternal stands, ill-ordered Alas, the Guest! amidst a for stuff undressed;
Ah, table dreary
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own dark in;
This this at e’en itself scene
Is e’en hail bright hands. presence, and and Lord, my confusion ord’ring demands
Thine to doleful once Yet welcome, tonight; cause Thee
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to Thee to a no unseemly; of waiting seek at still. so ill
Beyond or and coming mend,
Before I keep best the else all Friend;
All more were great ’twere alter things,
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chase to come, Thou Jesus, worthy all Come, this terror, and sin:
Come, Thyself, as art;
To Thee the find, Lord make dwelling heart
A gloom, troubled the in! but not the of yea